[SOLVED] mod_rewrite exceptions

[Northern Flame]

i am creating a membership program and the user profiles

will be like myspace,

http://www.mysite.com/username

 

i know how to do that,

but i want to make exceptions to this,

because it messes with the directories.

 

because if i have the directory members

and a user signs up as members his URL

will be

http://www.mysite.com/members

 

but when i try to run

http://www.mysite.com/members/

it will not work unless i have the "index.php"

added to the URL, how can i make exceptions

in the htaccess code? heres my code:

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ members/profile.php?user=$1 [L]

 

so what i want to do is not run the code above if "user" equals

certain things such as members, images, templates, etc.

[trq]

Add these conditions prior to your rule.

 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

[Northern Flame]

do i add both lines for each sub-directory?