Rewrite rules overriding - .htaccess

Question

I have two rewrite rules which, in what ever order I add them, fail to work together
The first one takes a name from url e.g.
http://myUrl.com/JohnSmith
and forwards it to:
http://myUrl.com/pages/gf_profile.html?user=JohnSmith
Code is:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ /pages/gf_profile.html?user=$1 [NC,L]
On it's own it works fine. The second one is wordpress, I have urls e.g.:
http://myUrl.com/blog/my-blog-post
And it uses:
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
With the second section in, when I try the first URL it thinks it's a blog title and therefore cannot find it.
Is there a way to use them both?

Answer 1

Try:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog/
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ /pages/gf_profile.html?user=$1 [NC,L]
And I assume your other rules are in the /blog/ directory (otherwise it doesn't look like it'll work right).

Answer 2

Answer:
Thanks to #anubhava - I simply created a .htaccess file in the /blog/ folder with the following on and all works perfectly now.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
I'm not sure why wordpress doesn't add this on install, it should IMHO - hopefully this might help someone who has a similar issue down the line.