I have a .htaccess with the following in it :

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?q=x'.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.cgi?q=$1 [L,QSA]

I want to exclude a directory from being processed by this .htaccess, tried various things, just cant get it right.

I tried placing a .htaccess in the directory I want to protect with 'RewriteEngine off' in there, didn't work.

I tried placing this right after rewritebase, also didn't work (was supposed to stop the other rules from taking place)

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^support.*
#Rewriterule .* - [L]

I tied placing this one right above the rewriterule line, also didn't do the trick...

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^/support

Any suggestions are very very welcome.

Thanks,
Marco

I've never been great with .htaccess stuff, so sorry for being useless, but have you tried this?