Trying to put an exception to RewriteRule in .htaccess

Question

I am redirecting all requests like so:

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]

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 RewriteCond before, so I'm a little unsure if what I am doing is correct.

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="

What am I doing wrong? Thanks

Answer 1

So you just need to ignore http://yourdomain.com/market-reports (in addition to files/directories?). You should be fine with:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/market-reports/?$

This will (not) match "http://yourdomain.com/market-reports" as well as "http://yourdomain.com/market-reports/"