title: Unable to exclude directory from rewriting rules
body: <p>I tried to do this in many ways, but I really cannot exclude directory "progress" from wordpress rewriting rules in .htaccess. I found many solutions but none of them seems to be working.
  .htaccess in root directory of wp contains:</p>
  
  <pre><code># BEGIN WordPress
  &lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
  
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
  # END WordPress
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried to use </p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(progress/.*)$
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteRule ^progress($|/) - [L]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?(admin|progress)/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I even tried to put Alias /progress /home/website/progress to httpd.conf but it still not working properly. Surely, mod_rewrite is installed and working, it redirects me to index.php that shows 404 error when I trying to access the directory...</p>