Codeigniter.htaccess file configuration to exclude google-apps domain verification

Question

I have a site built into codeigniter, and now I want to use Google applications with the same domain on which the site lives. Google requires me to put a specific validation .html file in the root of my domain.

For instance:

www.example.com/google644d08docc30vtsd.html

Should I change my htaccess or use the routing class?

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / #Removes access to the system folder by users. #Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller, #previously this would not have been possible. #'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.* RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L] #When your application folder isn't in the system folder #This snippet prevents user access to the application folder #Submitted by: Fabdrol #Rename 'application' to your applications folder name. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.* RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L] #Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file, #such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the #request to index.php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L] #force non-www to www.example.com RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301] </IfModule> <IfModule !mod_rewrite.c> # If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's # can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal. # Submitted by: ElliotHaughin ErrorDocument 404 /index.php </IfModule> 

Answer 1

If you are using Codeigniter rewrite to remove index.php from URLs, try adding exceptions like this to htaccess:

 RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|robots.txt|sitemap.xml|google644d08docc30vtsd.html) RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L] 

Using the htaccess you included, try using the conditional:

 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(google644d08docc30vtsd.html)$ 

Google also allows you to verify by adding a DNS record.