Question

Client added a WordPress install to their document root directory. Afterwards one non-WordPress directory is giving a 404.

In a browser you can access /foo/facebook/index.php with no issues but you get the WordPress 404 page if you try to access /foo_admin/index.php. WordPress is in / (not pictured here due to clutter).

Here is the entire .htaccess for the doc root directory:

# 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

EDIT:

Just realized a basic auth .htaccess in /gcb_admin is interfering somehow. Have now tried adding RewriteEngine off both before and after the basic auth directives but this changes nothing. Removing basic auth directives allows access to file…

AuthUserFile /home/foof/.htpasswd
AuthName "FOO Admin"
AuthType Basic

<Limit GET>
        require valid-user
</Limit>

RewriteEngine off

How do I correct this?

Answer 1

Try this solution – essentially, it just turns off the rewrite engine in that specific directory:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-directories-from-wp-rewrite

Add a .htaccess file to the directory that you want the WordPress rewrite to ignore, with this code:

RewriteEngine off

Or, try changing the last line you have to:

RewriteRule ./ /index.php [L]