title: Htaccess maintenance mode allow certain directories
body: <p>So I use the following for to force my site into maintenance mode while updating certain things:</p>
  
  <pre><code># MAINTENANCE-PAGE REDIRECT
  &lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^23\.1\.12\.167
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance.html$ [NC]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(jpe?g?|png|gif) [NC]
   RewriteRule .* /maintenance.html [R=302,L]
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This has worked well, but now I have the situation when in maintenance mode that I wish to exclude certain dir's from being sent to the maintenance.html and rather have them display their normal contents.</p>
  
  <p>So it would be something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>root/
     .htaccess
      maintenance.html
      index.html
      everything.else.html
      /do_not_display_me
      /display_me_always
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Not sure if this is possible from the root level .htaccess or if I'm going to have to get crafty with sub-dir .htaccess files, any help is appreciated.</p>