Rewrite rules confused - mod-rewrite

Question

I am struggling to achieve this simple thing...
I have some static pages which should be like
www.domain.com/profile etc..
The problem is how to write the rewrite rules in order to ..
There would be some fixed rewrites
like /home
I want every file that exists not to be rewritten
www.domain.com/test.php should go to
test.php
Lastly if it is not found i want it to be redirected to static.php?_.....
RewriteRule ^/home/?$ /index.php?__i18n_language=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/?$ /static.php?__i18n_language=$1
This works ok but if i type index.php or test.php or even the mach from other redirection it gets me in static.php...
Please help!

Answer 1

According to your description you can use these rules:
# stop rewriting process if request can be mapped onto existing file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
# rewrite known paths /home, /foo, /bar, etc.
RewriteRule ^/(home|foo|bar|…)$ /index.php [L]
# rewrite any other path
RewriteRule ^ /static.php [L]

Answer 2

I haven't used this in a long time, but it's something I found, that should help. It is part of an old script that generates .httaccess files for redirecting from /usr/share/doc only when the doc isn't found:
The rule is "Check, and if the target url exists, then leave":
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /doc/User_Documents
### If the directory already exists, then leave
### We're just redirecting request when the directory exists but has been renamed.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} User_Documents/([^/]+-[0-9][^/]*)
RewriteCond $PWD/%1 -d
RewriteRule .* - [L]
It's the [L] that means leave if one of the conditions is matched. In the old script, there are hundreds of generated rules (after [L]) that are skipped, because one of the conditions matched. In your case you would skip the rest of the rules when the target %{REQUEST_FILENAME} is found.
So, I suggest, before the redirection rule:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule .* - [L]