.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 have GoDaddy hosting, and this issue killed me. I had the same issues over and over again with conflicting .htaccess options in public_html, with my password-protected sub-directory.

I ended up buying another account because I tried about a million different modifications to my .htaccess file, and nothind worked around this problem. I'm sharing my setup and solution, now, just for completeness and clarity. (Just so you know, the account was worth it anyway, so no biggie.)

If it looks like a combination of other's answers, that's because it is. It took ALL of that to work.

Directory structure:

-otherfiles
---public_html
---.htaccess
-----subfolder
---.htaccess

The subfolder .htaccess has password the protect feature, so similar to this:

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Attendance"
AuthUserFile "/home/user/.htpasswds/public_html/attendance/passwd"
require valid-user

The public_html .htaccess originally had this, and it wasn't working (in that it swallowed EVERYTHING and redirected it, so that FatFreeFramework or CodeIgniter was handling it):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond $1 !^(index.php|resources|subfolder|robots.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L,QSA]

In order to fix this problem, I added two lines to my public_html .htaccess file. And so you're not guessing as to where, I'll show the whole file again:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond $1 !^(index.php|resources|robots.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(subfolder|subfolder/.*)$
ErrorDocument 401 default
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L,QSA]