Comments on: Exclude folder from htaccess rewrites on WordPress blog

By: Erum Munir

Erum Munir — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:03:21 +0000

Sorry, never saw the above comment. Delete htaccess. Make sure the folder you want excluded already exists. Set permalinks via WP admin. Since the folder you want excluded already exists, WP will take that into account automatically.

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By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:22:47 +0000

Erum, what you say is not clear though.

If you come with more info will be great and hopefully helpful :)

Thanks.

By: Erum Munir

Erum Munir — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:08:27 +0000

What worked for me:
Empty the contents of the .htaccess

Then rewrite permalinks in WP. If the folder is already there, WP does it correctly. If you add it after WP writes the .htaccess, then it seems to cause problems.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:04:18 +0000

Did not work for me either. Are you sure this is still valid?

By: taulant

taulant — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:18:33 +0000

did not work for me either. wordpress 3.0.5

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:22:10 +0000

Oh I should add that that solution above matches all folders AND filenames that begin with “foldername”.

As mentioned in the original URL, if you just wanna exclude that specific folder you should adjust it to:

- RewriteRule ^foldename(/|$) – [L,NC]

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:17:06 +0000

Since this is the top Google result for this problem. I thought that I’d share that this didn’t work for me either…

But I did find this solution that did work for me here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/163302/how-do-i-ignore-a-directory-in-mod-rewrite

- RewriteRule ^foldename – [L,NC]

(The – means do nothing.)
(The L means this should be last rule; ignore everything following.)
(The NC means no-case (so “FOLDERNAME” is also matched).)

I put that one line in before the “RewriteEngine On” line in my .htaccess file and it worked a treat. Hope that helps.

By: ArtemZ

ArtemZ — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:28:29 +0000

It just doesnt work

By: mroswell

mroswell — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:37:16 +0000

I’ve seen this solution a number of places, but it hasn’t worked for me. Do I need to clear the cache? does something need to activate the .htaccess file?

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:25:15 +0000

for me is working just fine and I am using wp 3.0.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:16:30 +0000

Thanks, but it doens’t seem to work in WP3.0?
(that version has a bit different htaccess structure?)