Add an exception to Joomla's .htaccess rewrite rules to allow an Owncloud subdirectory

Question

i'm actually use Joomla in our website and i would like to add Owncloud. The .htaccess in the root let Joomla side works without trouble:

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/Joomla3
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ Joomla3/$1 [L]

But if want to access the owncloud service, i get this error:

The requested URL /Joomla3/owncloud/ was not found on this server.

It seems the original rewrite works with the owncloud directory too. my host is composed by 1 root directory and the 2 subdirectory:

• -root
• --Joomla
• --Owncloud

How can I set .htaccess to

1. rewrite URL from my website (example.com) into www.example.com/Joomla
2. access owncloud (without rewrite) in the directory www.example.com/owncloud

Answer 1

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/Joomla3
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ Joomla3/$1 [L]

What these directives do is... if the requested URL does not start "/Joomla3" then internally rewrite the request to the "Joomla3" folder.

What you need to do is add another condition to state that... if the requested URL does not start "/Joomla3" and it does not start "/owncloud" then internally rewrite the request to the "Joomla3" folder.

For example, this could be achieved by adding a second RewriteCond (condition) directive:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/Joomla3
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/owncloud
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ Joomla3/$1 [L]

RewriteCond directives are implicitly AND'd.