Hi,

I am having trouble with my website using a rewrite rule.

Everything works great except for one directory that wordpress' rewrite is overriding an existing rule created by my webhost.

if you type in mydomain.com/page123 and page123 doesn't exist, my wordpress install will say it cannot be found, and that is the end of that.

But my problem is, my host has analog stats for my domain set at mydomain.com/stats

now, since there is nothing there, wordpress' rewrite engine treats it like any other situation, but what I need to do it make it so the rewrite engine will ignore mydomain.com/stats so I can log into my analog stats index

I have full permissions to the .htaccess file where these rules are written in.
If someone would help me by telling my how to exclude this directory (mydomain.com/stats), that would be great.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

use a rewriteCond before the rewrite rules

rewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/stats/

should work I believe, though not tested.
It should work out as;
rewrite URI IF FolderName NotEqualTo "/stats/"

Originally Posted by chrishirst

use a rewriteCond before the rewrite rules

rewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/stats/

should work I believe, though not tested.
It should work out as;
rewrite URI IF FolderName NotEqualTo "/stats/"

Thank you for your reply chrishirst.

The rewrite rule

 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/stats/

Is returning an Internal Server Error response, so it does not seem to be compatible.


Is there any other way to ignore this symbolic directory?
As I noted earlier, this is not an actual directory on my local user, it is a preexisting rewritten symbolic directory that represents the analog stats script on my web host's machine, and that is why this situation is a slippery one. I have some research of my own on this topic, but I do not have the general technical knowledge to fully understand it, so I appreciate any help on this matter


Thanks

-Adam