how to ignore the .htaccess file from a parent directory
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I'm using rewrite rules for search engine optimized url's
In my root folder I have the following .htaccess file:

> Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{http_host}
> ^elitegameservers.net [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$
> http://www.elitegameservers.net/$1 [R=301,L] rewriteEngine on
> rewriteBase / rewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)haloservers(.nl|.us|.net)$
> rewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.haloservers.net/$1 [L,R=301]
> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}
> ^(www\.)?haloservers(.nl|.us|.net) [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$
> http://www.elitegameservers.net/$1 [R=301,L]


In the sub directory(/controlpanel) I run WHMCS with the following .htaccess file:

    RewriteEngine On
    Options +FollowSymlinks
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{http_host} ^elitegameservers.net [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.elitegameservers.net/controlpanel/$1 [R=301,L] 
    
    RewriteEngine On
    
    # Announcements
    RewriteRule ^announcements/([0-9]+)/[a-z0-9_-]+\.html$ ./announcements.php?id=$1 [L,NC]
    RewriteRule ^announcements$ ./announcements.php [L,NC]
    
    # Downloads
    RewriteRule ^downloads/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ ./downloads.php?action=displaycat&catid=$1 [L,NC]
    RewriteRule ^downloads$ ./downloads.php [L,NC]
    
    # Knowledgebase
    RewriteRule ^knowledgebase/([0-9]+)/[a-z0-9_-]+\.html$ ./knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=$1 [L,NC]
    RewriteRule ^knowledgebase/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ ./knowledgebase.php?action=displaycat&catid=$1 [L,NC]
    RewriteRule ^knowledgebase$ ./knowledgebase.php [L,NC]


I noticed that knowledgeable SEO optimization in WHMCS doesn't seem to work properly and it seems to be caused by the .htaccess code in my root directory.

Because of that I want the controlpanel sub directory to be excluded from the code in the root directory.

Thanks for any help