.htaccess & WordPress: Exclude folder from RewriteRule

Question

I have this .htaccess file in WordPress. It\'s located at /public_html/ (web root). I need to exclude a folder (csNewsAd) from the rewrite engine. I\'ve tried this, based fr

Answer 1

.htaccess affects all directories underneath, so if you put an .htaccess in csNewsAd with the rewrite directives you want, it will take precedence over the root file.

Answer 2

I was having a similar problem for two sites of mine. The comments I read here didn't work for me, but I finally got this code to work:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on

  # stuff to let through (ignore)
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "/folder1/" 
  RewriteRule (.*) $1 [L]

obtained from https://www.drupal.org/node/30334

Answer 3

Was having the same issue and found the answer to my problem here: http://kb.siteground.com/article/How_to_exclude_a_folder_from_Wordpress_permalinks.html

--From the site

To exclude the subfolders from the WordPress rewrite rules, you need to edit the .htaccess file and change the bold line below:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# RewriteRule . /index.php [L] # Original line
RewriteRule ./ /index.php [L] # New line
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Answer 4

Place the line below in the .htaccess file in the root.

ErrorDocument 401 default

Had the exact same problem and this worked for me. It is not the problem that the redirects don't work. The problem is that the 401 (Authorization Required) error is nog defined so the "popup" doesn't show.

Answer 5

It's worth noting that it matters where in the flow of the .htaccess this line goes.

See here : http://tanyanam.com/technology/wordpress-exclude-directory-from-url-rewrite-with-htaccess - the line needs to come before the WordPress ones, it won't work after them.

Rob

Answer 6

you could add something like this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/csNewsAd 

but this should not be needed, because if csNewsAd indeed is a directory (folder) it should not be rewritten in the first place because of

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

are you sure there isn't anything else sitting between you and that folder, rights or (indeed) another .htaccess?