title: Trying to put an exception to RewriteRule in .htaccess
body: <p>I am redirecting all requests like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ sitemap.php?/ [QSA,L]
  
  # the line below is the one I'm having trouble with
  
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^market-reports$ 
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule (.*) /index.php?section=$1 [QSA,L]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>All my incoming links are meant to go to index.php, as you can see. But now I want to stop one from going there. I've never written my own <code>RewriteCond</code> before, so I'm a little unsure if what I am doing is correct.</p>
  
  <p>Basically what I'm trying to say is: "If incoming URL is a file, directory or /market-reports/ do nothing. Otherwise send on the URL to index.php?section="</p>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong? Thanks</p>