Subfolder creation problem

CMS & WordPress
1

Hi,

I’m trying to have a subfolder to put my own php files. (ie: mySubdirectory)

My htaccess looks like this:

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

I read everywhere, and people are saying to simply put
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(mySubdirectory|mySubdirectory/.*)$
in there but its not working. I tried for 3 hours and im losing it lol

My htaccess now looks like this.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(mySubdirectory|mySubdirectory/.*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

I also tried putting an htaccess fil in the mySubdirectory folder like this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine off
</IfModule>

And that didn’t work either.

Any suggestions?

2

Hi tzzoug. Welcome to the forums. :slight_smile:

May be a totally ignorant question, but what does htaccess have to do with this? Can’t you just create your subfolder and move on?

3

No, when i put a subfolder with say “test.php” or “index.php” in it, it is showing me a 404 error page
A lot of forums suggest that adding that line basically ignores that subdirectory as being part of wordpress and therefore allowing you to use it as you wish

4

Like this for example

And thanks for the warm welcome :slight_smile:

5

Hm, I don’t have much experience with WP, but I never had a problem adding extra directories outside of the WP files. Hopefully someone else will know what to do here. :slight_smile: