Apache directives & front controller pattern

[centurianii]

I'm wondering what directives to write to my apache 2 virtual hosts so as to start using a design based on the front controller pattern.

To be more precise, my ajax requests would update the url hash fragment resulting in urls shown to user as:

http://www.mysite.com/#!/path/to/data&ui=123&var=456&id=2714

containing links of the form:

<a id="123" href="/#!/path/to/data&ui=123&var=456&id=2714">link</a>

or using the Hijax technique:

<a id="123" href="index.php?/path/to/data&ui=123&var=456&id=2714">link</a> 
(javascript handles all behavior of links)

But as google instructs here the crawler will make the following request TO the server:

http://www.mysite.com/?_escaped_fragment_=/path/to/data&ui=123&var=456&id=2714

or using the Hijax technique (nothing new here):

http://www.mysite.com/index.php?/path/to/data&ui=123&var=456&id=2714

and the server SHOULD map these back to their ajax form plus a snapshot of the page!

As you can see, one immediate solution comes from the front controller pattern: send all external requests of the form:

http://www.mysite.com/whatever/you/like

to

http://www.mysite.com/index.php?/whatever/you/like

and also force the user to see the new ajax version:

http://www.mysite.com/#!/whatever/you/like

How can I do such generalized redirection in apache2?

Thanks!

[falko]

I guess something like this should work:

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]