Adding the following snippet will let you make a subdirectory accessible with WordPress in root.
1 2 3 4 5 6 | <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(thefoldername).*$ [NC] RewriteRule . - [L] </IfModule> |
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