.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    
    # CRITICAL: Serve PHP files directly - don't route to React
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.php$ [NC]
    RewriteRule . - [L]
    
    # Bot detection for event link previews - MUST BE BEFORE React routing
    # Route bots accessing /event/EVT-XXXX to PHP handler
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (bot|crawler|spider|scraper|facebookexternalhit|facebookcatalog|Twitterbot|Twitter|LinkedInBot|LinkedIn|WhatsApp|whatsapp|Slackbot|Slack|TelegramBot|Telegram|SkypeUriPreview|Discordbot|Discord|Googlebot|Google|Bingbot|Bing|Slurp|DuckDuckBot|Baiduspider|YandexBot|Sogou|Exabot|facebot|ia_archiver|Pinterestbot|Pinterest|redditbot|reddit|Applebot|Line|Kik|Viber|WeChat|Snapchat|TikTok|PostmanRuntime|curl|wget|linkedin) [NC]
    RewriteRule ^event/(.+)$ /event-preview.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
    
    # Skip rewriting for index.html
    RewriteRule ^index\.html$ - [L]
    
    # For regular users, serve React app (standard SPA routing)
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
    RewriteRule . /index.html [L]
</IfModule>

# php -- BEGIN cPanel-generated handler, do not edit
# Set the "ea-php81" package as the default "PHP" programming language.
<IfModule mime_module>
  AddHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php81 .php .php8 .phtml
</IfModule>
# php -- END cPanel-generated handler, do not edit

# Cache control for static assets
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
    ExpiresActive On
    ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 30 days"
    ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 30 days"
    ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 30 days"
    ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 30 days"
    ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 30 days"
    ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 30 days"
    ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 30 days"
</IfModule>