RewriteCond - What am I doing wrong? - .htaccess

Question

I'm using Opencart with the SEO Friendly url's turned on.
That's made the .htaccess file look like this
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ index.php?route=feed/google_sitemap [L]
RewriteRule ^googlebase.xml$ index.php?route=feed/google_base [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?_route_=$1 [L,QSA]
But I need to add in a folder exception that doesn't get rewritten, specifically /emailer
Looking around the web at answers I did the following:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(emailer|js|css)/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ index.php?route=feed/google_sitemap [L]
RewriteRule ^googlebase.xml$ index.php?route=feed/google_base [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?_route_=$1 [L,QSA]
That makes /emailer/ work, but the other rewriting doesn't. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?

Answer 1

You just insert it before the main RewriteRule.
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ index.php?route=feed/google_sitemap [L]
RewriteRule ^googlebase.xml$ index.php?route=feed/google_base [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/(emailer|js|css) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?_route_=$1&request_uri=%{REQUEST_URI} [L,QSA]
Note: It's not tested, but this should give you the idea how to do it.
Later EDIT:
I have tested my code and it didn't work. I have edited it and it works now, like this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f => if the request is not a real filename
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d => if the request is not a real directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/(emailer|js|css) [NC] => if there is not a directory/file in your root that starts with the words emailer/js/css
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)$ [NC] => if the request does not end with an extension of the following ico/gif/jpg/jpeg/png/js/css
Notes:
to test if you need a forward slash or not in your rewrite rule, append a query variable like i did in my modified example and print it (on the first line after the php open tag) in your index.php file like this:
print_r($_GET['request_uri']);
exit;
After you are done testing, remove the request_uri from htacces and index.php.
Always escape the forward slash with a backslash, like this \ /