.htaccess with Directory Exception

How to tell .htaccess to not handle specific directories

[wfernley]

Hey everyone,

Does anyone know how I can get my .htaccess file to control every directory within root except for specific directories that I specify.

Here is my current code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^(www\.¦$) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ [%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}...] [L,R=301]

# Change ---.php to ---.html
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f
RewriteRule (.*) pages\.php?page=$1

I basically have every file being requested to go to pages.php unless the file actually exists. I have a directory (we will call it "testdir") which I want to exclude in the .htaccess file so when someone requests a file within the testdir directory, the .htaccess file does not try to forward it to pages.php.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Wes

[jdMorgan]

Add a RewriteCond with a negative pattern to exclude that directory.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/testdir/

Jim