How to stop sub directory inheriting parent's htaccess rules

Question

My main public_html directory has the following .htaccess rules:

Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*

RewriteEngine on

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Answer 1

Change your .htaccess with this:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# if request is not for the /sub-dir/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/sub-dir/ [NC]
# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php