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[ChickPea Profile]

I've noticed when looking at rewrite logs that files that are *not* rewritten generate much more logging traffic than ones that are.

Should I have a simple rule in place, high up in the order, that simply says: "If the file exists, serve it as requested"?

And if so, what's the best way to craft it?

Would this work?

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule .? - [L,NC,NS,QSA]


[HeliconAndrew]

ChickPea,

I'm afraid you're the amount of logging should not bother you. Logging is a debugging feature that should be OFF most of the time, unless you're troubleshooting or tweaking your rules.
The rule you;re using is correct, depending on circumstances it might be more elegant, but with the amount of times we have worked with you, it's hard to remember everything.

Regards

[ChickPea Profile]

Trouble is, we *are* debugging/tweaking a lot of the time. We seem to be constantly fighting dodgy links that Google dredges up from who knows where and then uses to penalise the site.

So anything that removes a lot of irrelevant clutter from the logs is a bonus.

I'll try it as coded, and quickly turn off if it produces bad results.

[ChickPea Profile]

At first glance, it seems to be quicker rendering pages.