hosting content outside Contao on the same domain

[tmikk]

Happy almost New Year :-)!
I currently host accessibility.umn.edu domain and manage it with Contao. I would like to create a URL: "accessibility.umn.edu/tutorials" and have it point to html files in the /tutorials folder on the webserver and not have it be managed by Contao. What is the best way to accomplish this? I think I may have to modify the webserver config file. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this? The webserver is running on Apache and the current config looks like this.

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# accessibility.umn.edu
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<VirtualHost 134.84.231.67:80>
DocumentRoot /swadm/web/ac
<Directory /swadm/web/ac>
AllowOverride All
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ServerName accessibility.umn.edu
ErrorLog /swadm/web/log/accessibility_error.log
</VirtualHost>

Thank you!

[Andreas]

I think I would try to change the .htaccess by disabling the rewrite process for this specific folder.

[andreas.schempp]

Hi Tõnu,

If you use the default .htaccess file of Contao 3.5, then files and folders that actually exist on your webserver are not rewritten to Contao.

I think these are the relevant lines: https://github.com/contao/core/blob/...ault#L263-L264

[tmikk]

Thanks Andreas! I had placed the /tutorials folder outside my contao root folder. Once I moved the tutorials folder into the contao root folder, the rewrite rules took effect and all worked. Perfect!