.htaccess file blocks css, js but how? - regex

Question

I have a .htaccess file inside an existing project folder. The code for the .htaccess file is below.
# Use PHP54 Single php.ini as default
#Options +FollowSymLinks
#Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#RewriteRule ^users/([A-Za-z0-9_]+)$ users/index.php [NC,L]
#RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_]+)$ users/$1 [NC,L]
#RewriteRule ^ - [L]
#RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/users/$1 -f
#RewriteRule .* users/$1 [L]
#Options -Indexes
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteRule ^[!/.]*([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?id=$1 [NC,L]
#<FilesMatch "\.(?i:vcf)$">
# ForceType application/octet-stream
# Header set Content-Disposition attachment
#</FilesMatch>
# If requested resource exists as a file or directory, skip next two rules
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1 -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1 -d
RewriteRule (.*) - [S=2]
#
# Requested resource does not exist, do rewrite if it exists in /users
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/users/$1 -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/users/$1 -d
RewriteRule (.*) users/$1 [L]
#
# Else rewrite requests for non-existent resources to /index.php
RewriteRule (.*) users/index.php?q=$1 [L]
So what happens it, when I try to open the project in url at localhost
http://localhost/projectfolder
it opens the index file without any javascript and css. Also the links to other pages do not open and the error message shows as -"Object not found". So I can only view index.php with out css and js files.
But when I remove / rename the .htaccess file, all works fine. So there must be something in this file which blocks all css, js files. So I am not asking for all the rules of writing a .htaccess file, I just need to know which line of code is blocking the files and how can I edit them, so it will not block any file wile working in localhost.
Note:- This question I am asking only for my knowledge. As I have written, if I remove the file then its working fine. But still I want to know which line of code is blocking the access to files. Thanks.

Answer 1

I suspect this rule is not doing what you think it should be doing:
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1 -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1 -d
RewriteRule (.*) - [S=2]
Replace this with:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
Also you might be using relative links for css/js/images which will also cause 404 after rewriting to /users/. You have 2 options to fix that:
use absolute path in your css, js, images files rather than a relative one. Which means you have to make sure path of these files start either with http:// or a slash /.
You can try adding this in your page's HTML header:
<base href="/" />