Wordpress rewriting my subdirectories

[mr_nabo]

Hi,

I have this in my .htaccess file in the root of my site:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

But, I've set up an independent client page for someone that needs to be protected by another htaccess file. Problem is, with the code above in the root of my site, I'm getting an internal 500 error (didn't happen on my old host, but is on my new one).

Is there anything I can check or maybe exclude certain directories from Wordpress's htaccess code above?

Thanks

[jdMorgan]

First check the server error log file whenever you get a 500-Server Error. Posting the relevant error messages will likely help to expedite this thread.

The code above looks like the box-stock (awful) WP code. Once you've reported the server error log entries and we've worked through that issue, we can discuss performance improvements to the WP code.

Jim