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i have general rewrite-rule in sites root looks this:

rewriteengine on rewritecond %{request_filename} !-f rewriterule ^([\w]+)/?([\w]+)? index.php?action=$1 

which works fine rewriting urls "www.example.com/myaction" "www.example.com/index.php?action=myaction"

this must stay this, need exclude subdirectory ("/login") rewriting.

so tried:

rewriteengine on rewritecond %{request_filename} !-f rewritecond %{request_uri} !^/login/ rewriterule ^([\w]+)/?([\w]+)? index.php?action=$1 

but still no luck. i've read several answers here on can't find flaw. ideas? thank you!

you've slash. .htaccess doesn't use preceding slash unlike virtual host. /login/ directory. you're matching not real file, potentially real directory. if instance '/css/' exists, you're rewriting index.php action on request.

rewriteengine on rewritecond %{request_filename} !-f rewritecond %{request_uri} !^login/ rewriterule ^([^/]+) index.php?action=$1 

if it's still acting unexpectedly might need make sure you're not rewriting existing directories , try this:

rewriteengine on rewritecond %{request_filename} !-f rewritecond %{request_filename} !-d rewritecond %{request_uri} !^login/ rewriterule ^([^/]+) index.php?action=$1 

i noticed you're capturing first slash (possibly) posted example code since you're using ? look-up, in previous layout's i'm showing code little shorter. capture whole uri use this:

rewriteengine on rewritecond %{request_filename} !-f rewritecond %{request_filename} !-d rewritecond %{request_uri} !^login/ rewriterule ^(.*) index.php?action=$1 

to capture second (and third) string can this:

rewriteengine on rewritecond %{request_filename} !-f rewritecond %{request_filename} !-d rewritecond %{request_uri} !^login/ rewriterule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+) index.php?action=$1&page=$2&response=$3