.htaccess conflicts with protected directory (.htpasswd) - .htaccess

I use a .htaccess file to rewrite my urls to make them SEO friendly, this works fine.
This file is located in the root (public_html). A website runs there too.
Now I created a directory named 'templates' which is CHMOD to 777.
I want it to be protected so these files cannot be accessed from outside.
Through directadmin I protected that folder.
Now if I use my browser to surf on the website all the urls are still SEO friedly. However when I try to surf to that protected directory (templates) it shows a 404 page that I created but shows 401.shtml as title. If I look at the url it also shows 'domain.com/401.shtml/'.
It does not ask me for an username or password either.
Now if I delete or simply rename the htaccess file (to .htaccess2) which is located in public_html (the one that arranges all the SEO friendly urls) the pages on the website do not work (obviously) but now if I surf to that /templates directory, it does ask me for an username and password and I am able to login and access the files.
This is the htaccess file I use in the root:
RewriteEngine On
ErrorDocument 404 /home
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*?)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(nl|NL|fr|FR|en|EN)/start\.html$ /$1/ [R=301]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /$1/ [R=301]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/$ index.php?page=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /$1/$2/ [R=301]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/$ /index.php?page=$1&subpage=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /$1/$2/$3/ [R=301]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/$ /index.php?page=$1&subpage=$2&subsubpage=$3 [L]
EDIT:
I've noticed that when I turn the RewriteEngine Off in the main htaccess file it does work too (except for the rewrite of course). Any idea's?

I found this on the web which seems to work!
The problem is that accessing protected content makes Apache send a 401 header.
I had to put the following in the .htaccess file which was located in the protected directory.
ErrorDocument 401 "Unauthorized Access"
RewriteEngine off

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Since I managed to hide the "wordpress" folder in the URL, I am unable to acces my "other-wp" it says the page doesn't exist.
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/other-wp
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /wordpress/$1 [L]
I also made some other modifications to that top level configuration file, just smaller optimizations. In general you should check if you can place such global rules in the actual http server's host configuration. Using distributed configuration files (".htaccess") is just a fallback if you have no access to the real configuration. They work, but come with disadvantages.

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My url looks like -
http://localhost/user_notes/?id=1234.
I want to be turn it into user friendly url like
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My .htaccess file looks like -
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
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RewriteRule (.*) public/$1 [L]
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The problem is with RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /user_notes/?id=$1
For more info see my directory structure
Note : In my directory structure there is also a public folder. But I can access files without including public in URL through htaccess file (line 3).
Could you please place these rules at top of your htaccess file(I hope there are NO redirect rules for https in your htaccess file). Please make sure to clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.
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I am working on a php redirect script which 302 redirects visitors to other sites when they access a redirect url..
The script gets a variable (id) from the url and then redirects the visitor to the specific page.
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At the moment all redirects work if I use "ugly" urls, but I want to strip all unnessecary information out of the url with .htaccess rewrites for better usability.
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<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
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but they only work for urls like example.com/redirect/index.php?id=test if I try example.com/redirect/test I get a 404 error page.
It might be good to know, that I have 2 .htaccess files, one in my root directory and one in the root/redirects/ directory.
Best regards !
Try this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
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This is the .htaccess file in the root directory. As I understand, it will redirect everything which doesn't have /typo in the URL to the subfolder and attach the parameters:
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# URL with no path
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/?$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index\.php [NC]
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and
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