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I’m using the “exclude” method in my htaccess to remove “index.php” from my URLs. I have a line similar to this:

RewriteCond $1 !^(css|js|tools|uploads|dev) [NC]

“dev” is in there because I have a dev folder for a subdomain. However, I also have a template group called “developer” in EE. If “dev” is in this line, then http://www.site.com/developer/ throws a 404 error. If I remove it, the developer template group shows up as it should.

How do I fix that?how do I match only “dev”, and not “developer”, or “devilish” or anything else starting with d-e-v?

Try adding a trailing slash after ‘dev’, Ryan, so it knows to only avoid it when that directory is specifically being accessed:

RewriteCond $1 !^(css|js|tools|uploads|dev/) [NC]

or to add the same specificity to all of them:

RewriteCond $1 !^(css|js|tools|uploads|dev)/ [NC]

Yep, that did the trick. I googled this but must have been using the wrong terms. Thanks for the help!