wordpress: exclude directory from rewrite rule

[dreamcube]

In order for wordpress to use SEF URL's it uses the following rule in the .htacess file:

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

I have a file that is outside the theme folder (in the web root) that I want to use SEF URLs as well. Here is the rule that I have

RewriteRule ^profiles/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ profiles.php?name=$1 [L]

These two clash. I have tried numerous diff methods and even took a trip to the bookstore to no avail. Hopefully someone here can help .

How can I exclude the second rewrite from the first rule and allow it to work?

Thanks,
Tom

[dreamcube]

I found what I was looking for:

viewtopic.php?t=4727&highlight=wordpress

effin n00bs.

Well, Hi everybody, I think I will be spending some time here for a while as a lot of my upcoming projects can benefit from a better understanding of mod_rewrite.

As I mentioned, I tried to find a good book on Apache or even .htacess would be better.... any recommendations?

[dreamcube]

Ran into a new problem...

What if I have a php page that is handling 2 session variables and sometimes the second variable will be null.

For example

url could be
http://www.mysite.com/a/

or

http://www.mysite.com/a/anderson/

I'm using:

RewriteRule ^profiles/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ profiles.php?letter=$1&fullname=$2 [L]

But this won't work if I only have one variable to pass.

[richardk]

Try

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^profiles/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)(?:/([A-Za-z0-9-]+))?/?$

The surrounding ()? makes the last /([A-Za-z0-9-]+) optional.
?: matches the () not create a backreference (variable) so $2 is still for the second ([A-Za-z0-9-]+).