.htaccess & WordPress: Exclude folder from RewriteRule

Question

I have this .htaccess file in WordPress. It's located at /public_html/ (web root). I need to exclude a folder (csNewsAd) from the rewrite engine. I've tried this, based from another question similar here at SO, but didn't work at all.

AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^/csNewsAd($|/) - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress

Any suggestions?

More data

There's another .htaccess inside /csNewsAd for password protection:

 AuthName "Clasificados" AuthType "basic" AuthUserFile /home/ig000192/public_html/csNewsAd/.passwd Require valid-user 

Answer 1

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(csNewsAd|csNewsAd/.*)$  

instead of

RewriteRule ^/csNewsAd($|/) - [L]  

Answer 2

Place the line below in the .htaccess file in the root.

ErrorDocument 401 default 

Had the exact same problem and this worked for me. It is not the problem that the redirects don't work. The problem is that the 401 (Authorization Required) error is nog defined so the "popup" doesn't show.