How to exclude a directory with IIS URL rewriting?

Question

I have a domain.com/index.php and a friendly url rule to redirect domain.com/index.php?s=? requests. I use IIS webserver with the URL rewrite add-on.

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Answer 1

Taking a look here you could add this rule so when a request that you don't want to process comes, you can ignore it and stop processing.

It should be placed first so that this rule executes before the other two.

<rule name="block" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="^admin/cloud/index.php$" />
    <action type="None" />
</rule>