title: Htaccess: exculde files within directory from being rewrited by any htaccess rules
body: <p>the rewrite rules in my htaccess file are:</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
  RewriteRule ^([0-9A-Za-z-]+/[0-9A-Za-z-]+.html)$ /event.php?file=$1 [L]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i have directory called <code>pop</code> and i want to exclude files in from being affected by the last rule in htaccess.</p>
  
  <p>files in the pop directory are something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>en-kijys-umn-satam-27599506296230.html
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i have tried adding this cond. but no luck</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/pop [NC]
  </code></pre>