How to use multiple RewriteRules for use 3rdparty and routes at the same time?

Question

The answers present in Redirect requests only if the file is not found? don't solve to the specific situation, for a defined real path and are routes (which will use PATH_INFO).

I have a .htaccess to add path_info in the index.php file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-f
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-d

RewriteRule ^(?!index\.php/.*)([a-zA-Z0-9\-\/.]+)$ index.php/$1 [QSA,L]

This works perfectly with my route system that is in the index.php

But I want use 3rdparty at the time, I used the following code:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-f
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-d

RewriteRule ^(?!(3rdparty|index\.php)/.*)(.*)$ 3rdparty/$2 [QSA,L]

The idea of this code is that any file or folder inside the "3rdparty" override the routes, eg. If acess http://localhost/folder1/ it will show the contents of the file /var/www/3rdparty/folder1/ but if the file don't exists in 3rdparty folder, then it will use the system routes.

Folder structure

This is an example of structure:

project
├── index.php
├── .htaccess
└── 3rdparty
    ├── folder1
    └── folder2
        ├── file1.html
        └── file2.html

I want to use other PHP files without having to access an address as http://localhost/3rdparty/something...

Examples (see folder structure):

http://example/project/folder1 shows contents from this address http://example/project/3rdparty/folder1
http://example/project/folder2 shows contents from this address http://example/project/3rdparty/folder2/
http://example/project/folder2/file1.html shows contents from this address http://example/project/3rdparty/folder2/file1.html
http://example/project/folder2/file2.html shows contents from this address http://example/project/3rdparty/folder2/file2.html
http://example/project/folder3/file3.html (no-existing file in 3rdparty) shows contents from this address http://example/project/index.php/folder3/file3.html

The problem is that I'm not able to use both at the same time, how can I do this?

Why the downvote? I missed something in my question? Tell where wrong for me to improve question. — Protomen, May 17 '15 at 02:28
You are telling non-existent urls in the first rule to go to 3rdparty folder. how is the server going to know the difference? — Panama Jack, May 17 '15 at 02:35
@PanamaJack Could you help me? I just posted the code was trying to do. — Protomen, May 17 '15 at 02:39
Is your structure contstant? Meaning all you have is folder1 and folder2 — Panama Jack, May 17 '15 at 02:47
@PanamaJack It's just an example, I can add content in the "3rdparty" at any time. — Protomen, May 17 '15 at 02:49
possible duplicate of [Redirect requests only if the file is not found?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/595005/redirect-requests-only-if-the-file-is-not-found) — Alejandro Teixeira Muñoz, May 17 '15 at 02:54
You can't use the same logic, You will have to see if the actual requests exists. — Panama Jack, May 17 '15 at 02:57
why not simply `RewriteRule ^(?!3rdparty|index\.php)(.*)$ 3rdparty/$1 [QSA,L]` and `RewriteRule ^(?!index\.php)([\w\-\/\.]+)$ index.php/$1 [QSA,L]` ? — Deadooshka, May 17 '15 at 03:43
@Deadooshka Good tip, but `\w` allow `_` (underline) in urls, I avoid this because of some SEO issues. — Protomen, May 17 '15 at 20:25

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 17 '15 at 03:16

Going off what the what I was saying about checking if it exists and the link Alejandro posted, here is an adaption for your situation. See if this will work for you.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} [A-Z]{3,}\ /3rdparty/([^&\ ]+)
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [R=301,L]    

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1 -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1 -d
RewriteRule (.*) - [L]

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/3rdparty/$1 -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/3rdparty/$1 -d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /3rdparty/$1 [L]

RewriteRule (.*) /index.php [QSA,L]

Protomen · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-17T20:24:21.010

Problems:

It was adding RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) at the beginning unnecessarily.
I used $1, but the right was $2 or $3 (it depends on the order)

Fixed code (read comments):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    # Replace next line by / or by a folder name 
    # Example: /laravel (http://localhost/laravel)
    # Example: /cakephp (http://localhost/cakephp)
    # I used /project (http://localhost/project)

    RewriteBase /project

    # Next line allow access to static files
    # no needs type "public" in address, example:
    # http://localhost/project/css/file.css
    # http://localhost/project/js/file.js
    # http://localhost/project/images/file.jpg

    RewriteRule ^(css|js|images)/(.*)$ public/$1/$2 [QSA,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

    # If the address is not equal to
    # localhost/css or localhost/js redirect to 3rdparty:

    RewriteRule ^(?!(index\.php|public|3rdparty)/.*)(.*)$ 3rdparty/$2 [QSA,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

    # If no such file/folder in 3rdparty when use route system in index.php:
    RewriteRule ^(?!index\.php/.*)3rdparty/([a-zA-Z0-9\/\-.]+)$ index.php/$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

Note: Removed \w of example because it allow _ (underscore)

How to use multiple RewriteRules for use 3rdparty and routes at the same time?

Folder structure

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