title: Mod ReWrite - How do you provide an exception for a particular directory?
body: <p>There are a couple of directories that I would like ModRewrite to ignore. How is this accomplished? Right now if I try to create a new subdirectory and I place an index.html file in there and call it explicitly it works, however if I just hit the directory the index file is not loading and I think its something in the code below.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the htaccess file</p>
  
  <pre><code>#php_value upload_max_filesize      32M
  RewriteEngine On
  
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} programresidency\.com$
  RewriteRule (.*) http://www.programresidency.org/$1?fr=residency.com [L,R=302]
  
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} programresidency\.net$
  RewriteRule (.*) http://www.programresidency.org/$1?fr=programresidency.net [L,R=302]
  
  RewriteRule about-the-residency/professional-development.php about/professional_development.html [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule about-the-residency/placement-process.php about/placement_process.html [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule about-the-residency/about-education-reform.php about/education_reform.html [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule become-a-resident/selection-criteria.php become_a_resident/selection_criteria.html [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule become-a-resident/selection-process.php become_a_resident/selection_process.html [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule summer-residency/selection-process.php become_a_resident/summer_opportunities.html [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule about-residents-alumni/alumni.php student/alumni/overview.html [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule about-residents-alumni/resident-experiences.php student/experiences.html [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule about-residents-alumni/day-in-the-life.php student/day_in_life.html [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule about-residents-alumni/2007/ student/2007-2009.html [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule about-residents-alumni/2008/ student/2008-2010.html [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule information-sessions/ events.html [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule newsletters/?$ news/newsletter.html [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule media-center/press-releases.php news/press/index.html [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule media-center/articles.php news/articles/index.html [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule faq/?$ faq.html [L,R=302]
  RewriteRule index.php index.html [L,R=302]
  
  # we skip all files with .something
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \..+$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.html$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.org
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.xml$
  RewriteRule .* - [L]
  
  # we check if the .html version is here (caching)
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  
  #Dev Apache 2.x
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css|php)$ hello.php
  </code></pre>