Apache: edirecting all the pages to the root, except for the pages in the root

[marcnyc]

Hello guys,
I am not very familiar with Apache and I just do some basic php programming in my own spare time, so sometimes I run into Apache issues...
In this case I installed WordPress on my server for my new site and I installed it with the option explained here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_Wo..._Own_Directory

Wordpress is installed in the /blog/ folder and the .htaccess file from he blog folder was moved to the root and contains the following:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

This code seems to re-direct everything to the index.php file in the root, but what I really would like to do is to re-direct ONLY the traffic coming from the /blog/ folder, so that the rest of the traffic (I have some plain files in the root) can still be accessed. The way it is now, if I click on a link to a file in the root I get re-directed to the index file in the root.

Can you help me modify the Condition so that I am re-directed ONLY for requests to file within the /blog/ folder?

Thanks

[bradgrafelman]

Try getting rid of the RewriteBase line and changing your RewriteRule to look like this:

RewriteRule blog/.* /index.php [L]

[marcnyc]

that doesn't seem to work...

[Roger_Ramjet]

If you only want to redirect the traffic in the /blog/ folder then put the .htaccess in that folder. Basically you should not have moved it in the first place.