.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

I first started doing this with Rails. At the top of the rails .htaccess are the following two lines.

# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/notrails.*
# RewriteRule .* – [L]

When I finally followed their example it worked.

I wanted to exclude images, javascripts, stylesheets, css, images-global, js-global (etc) so I changed the above to.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(images|javascripts|stylesheets|css|images-globa|js-global|js).*
RewriteRule .* – [L]

And it worked the way I needed.

We won’t talk about how it is that I have so many different javascript, stylesheet and images folders….

But this does make my “error” file less painful. If someone adds an image file that doesn’t exist, my dispatch doesn’t have to process it.