Wordpress, .htaccess, and subdirectories (should be a simple fix)

[boo_lolly]

Hey all,

 

I have a Wordpress installation (inside the root directory) that uses a .htaccess file to have clean urls for posts and pages. It looks like this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

 

However, I want to add a subdirectory inside this wordpress installation so I can add other stuff or another app or whatever I want and still access it. So to verify, wordpress is here: http://www.mydomain.com/, and my subdirectory is here: http://www.mydomain.com/subdir/. However, when I go to my subdirectory in my web-browser I get a 403 error:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /subdir/ on this server.

 

I know that the permissions to this directory are just fine (777 just to be sure) and I still get the same error. How can I write a rule or condition in my .htaccess file that will allow normal use of this directory??

[boo_lolly]

Alright so the problem was not Wordpress, it wasn't .htaccess, it wasn't the subdirectory permissions, it was a centos server thing. If there's nothing inside the directory, it'll automatically bring up a 403 error. As soon as I put a blank index.php file in there, everything was fine.