problem with some rewrite and awstats

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Hi,

I have on some sites this rule for non existing files/directories:

Code:

RewriteEngine On


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/awstats
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/ [R=301,L]

this is not working because the folder "awstats" is password protected

what do I need to change? this happens to all wordpress blogs I guess

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Awstats is a real directory in your site, or a link from Apache?

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Awstats is a real directory in your site, or a link from Apache?

a real directory

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Why don't you puy an .htaccess in that directory?

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inside the awstats directory is a htaccess file.

if I'm logged in the rule works, I guess the condition is a test for a 404

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Yes, what you wrote is in case a file does not exists

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Yes, what you wrote is in case a file does not exists

yes right even if I try to access the awstats script directly its would be redirected

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