.htaccess rewritecond not being applied

[JakeTheSnake3.0]

Hello everyone.

 

I've been trying to stop my site from redirecting when I attempt to log into any folder within the "ftp" folder.

 

URL example:

http://mydomain.com/ftp/private/    or

http://mydomain.com/ftp/public/

 

With what I have set up now, it always attempts to redirect to

http://www.mydomain.com/ftp/private/  or

http://www.mydomain.com/ftp/public/

 

and I end up getting a Forbidden reply.

 

 

This is what I have....

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/ftp/(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www\.mydomain\.com/$1 [R=301,NC]

 

If I were to take out all three of those lines altogether, the login works just fine.

 

Any thoughts?

[JakeTheSnake3.0]

Update:

 

I've narrowed down the problem to this:

 

I get permanently redirected to 401 error on password protected directories.  So for example, I can access http://mydomain.com/ftp/public/ but not http://mydomain.com/ftp/private/