Ah, got you. Because of Ingo's wording I actually thought he meant the file itself (Sorry about that ;)

Clear! And thanks, because I actually need this exact functionality for a shopping cart that wants to look into a .php file in some directory in order to do url replacement so the store looks like it is under the real site's domain...

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/directoryname

doesn't work for me. Added this rule in my .htaccess, which is in the root. Replaced directoryname for my oscommerce admin folder (www.mydomain.com/catalog/admin)

But i always get the SS error: page not found, but it does exist
Also see: http://www.silverstripe.org/general-questions/show/285405?start=0#post285464

htaccess code:

### SILVERSTRIPE START ###
<Files *.ss>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Files>

htaccess looks like this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.gif$)|(\.jpg$)|(\.png$)|(\.css$)|(\.js$)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* sapphire/main.php?url=%1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/http://www.mydomain.nl/webshop/catalog/admin/

</IfModule>

### SILVERSTRIPE END ###

Why doens't it work?

@borriej you have to have all the conditions before the rules in the .htaccess file AFAIK.

@Willr, thankyou for your reply.

Im new to this: which are the other conditions?

Iin your file

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$ 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* sapphire/main.php?url=%1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/http://www.mydomain.nl/webshop/catalog/admin/

I think it needs to be like

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$ 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/http://www.mydomain.nl/webshop/catalog/admin/
RewriteRule .* sapphire/main.php?url=%1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L] 

All the RewriteCond which are Rewrite Conditions *before* the rule

Ok re-ordered the lines, but it still says: page not found.

Try using a sub folder name instead of your the full url last condition.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/webshop/catalog/admin

sorry, but that also doesn't work.

Is this really the way to exclude SilverStripe from looking into some folders?

Is there another way to make sure SS doesn't say 'page not found' in 'Non-SilverStripe-Folders?'