Not rewriting php files with querystings in subfolder?

[MikeSwede]

I have a rewriterule that looks like this:

RewriteRule ^search/([^/]*)/([^/]*)\.html$ /search/widget_sale.php?catid=$1&border=$2 [L]

it rewrites to html files if you have 2 parameters in the querystring. It works fine BUT then I have subfolders like this:
http://www.domain.com/search/alabama/ where I have and index.php file that takes 2 parameters.
My problem is that it seems that my rewriterule also rewrites files in the subfolder but I want to keep them as is.

I tried this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [L]

and it works for not rewriting the folder but like I said, I do not want to rewrite anything in my subfolders.
Is this possible?

[richardk]

Try

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/search/[^/]+)(/.*)?$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%1 !-d
RewriteRule ^search/([^/]+)/([^/]+)\.html$ /search/widget_sale.php?catid=$1&border=$2 [L]

[MikeSwede]

Someone said that you could deny rewrite of all index.php pages. I "kind of" tried that but couldn't figure out how. The example I got didn't work.

[richardk]

What was wrong with what i provided? What didn't it do that you need it to?

Someone said that you could deny rewrite of all index.php pages. I "kind of" tried that but couldn't figure out how. The example I got didn't work.

So you only want to ignore /search/something/index-page? Or all of /search/something? (Which is what my mod_rewrite should do.) What example where you given? What did you try?