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I have a .htaccess that looks like this
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !static/(.*)\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?controller=$1 [QSA]
It works fine. /static folder request remain intact, while others execute index.php file.
But now I have to add another rule. When a user navigates to /action/something, then /actions/something.php should be executed. But when I add the following line
RewriteRule ^action/(.*)$ actions/$1.php [QSA]
it breaks requests to static folder.

Answer 1

There is no reason, why it should break static, unless you wrote the new rule right after RewriteCond. What you should do however, rewrite to an absolute URL
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !static/(.*)\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?controller=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^action/(.*)$ /actions/$1.php
The RewriteCond looks unusual. Unless there is a reason to rewrite static pages without a dot ., you should reduce the RewriteCond to just
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !static/
Update:
To prevent the infinite rewrites, you must add another exclusion condition
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php$
and action must be excluded as well
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/actions?/
All put together gives
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/static/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/actions?/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?controller=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^action/(.*)$ /actions/$1.php