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Asked: 2026-06-06T08:03:34+00:00

I was wondering how to exclude a subfolder from .htaccess redirect. I have an

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I was wondering how to exclude a subfolder from .htaccess redirect.

I have an .htaccess file in the root of my old domain and I have the following in it:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

This of course redirects any traffic from the old domain to the new one. But I want to exclude a directory from this rule. Meaning http://www.olddomain.com/media/videos should not redirect to http://www.newdomain.com/media/videos

The reason I want the exclusion is because I’m hosting static files such as videos on a shared web server (old domain) and I’m keeping everything else the site needs on the new VPS server (new domain).

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just put RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/media/videos above your RewriteRule. It checks wether the URL starts with /media/videos and if it does so, the RewriteRule will not be met.

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