.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 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:

  RewriteEngine on

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

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