[wp-hackers] Protecting a static dir

[Jeremy Visser]

On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 10:22 -0800, Hacker Scot wrote:
> No problem putting a static dir in the WP  docroot. But if you  
> protect  that static dir with .htaccess, suddenly WP tries  to handle  
> it and  gives a 404.

Did you add a [L] at the end of the RewriteRule?

Make sure the rules you added are _above_ WordPress' rules.