Don't rewrite UserDir requests
I have a site that's a Rails application which I also want to be able to use as my home on the web -- a place I keep the stuff that I want to share. Since I use Apache, the simplest way to do this is to use the UserDir module. Unfortunately, the way that I setup my applications catches all requests using mod_rewrite and, after some processing to make sure there's not a cached file to use, passes the request to an application server.
For my future reference, here's the necessary mod_rewrite voodoo to avoid rewriting UserDir requests.
# Don't rewrite UserDir requests
RewriteRule ^/~.*$ - [L]
All hail the mighty mod_rewrite cheat-sheet.
