RewriteRule and stats problem

[Bonusbana]

Hi

I have some rewrite rules like:

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)\.html?$ /index\.php?section=$1&ark=$2
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ /index\.php?section=$1&ark=$2
RewriteRule ^([^/][^missing]+)\.html?$ /index\.php?section=$1
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ /index\.php?section=$1

This works great, except when I try to access my stats page located at domain.com/stats/ the rewriterule thinks its a domain.com/index.php?section=stats and then fails to load.

Is it possible to exclude a directory from the rewrite rules?

thanks
David

[RonPK]

You can put a condition before the RewriteRule, like this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/stats 
RewriteRule ... [L]

The! before /stats means 'not'.