Rewrite URLs with .htaccess but ignore specific Directories?

I think the keyword you're looking for is RewriteCond. It's pretty similar to what you ended up with.

You might be able to use RewriteCond to check if an actual file exists... at least, I use this for websites when I want things like CSS, Javascripts, and images to be accessible (without the request being redirected.).

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