[geeks] .htaccess / mod_rewrite question

[Bill Bradford]

I've got the following .htaccess:

(someone else wrote it, I'm just the SOB who has to maintain it)

It apparently rewrites /url to /index.php?area=url 

RewriteEngine on
Options FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ /index.php?area=$1&page=$2&mode=$3&value1=$4&value2=$5&value3=$6 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ index.php?area=$1&page=$2&mode=$3&value1=$4&value2=$5 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$         index.php?area=$1&page=$2&mode=$3&value1=$4 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$                 index.php?area=$1&page=$2&mode=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$                         index.php?area=$1&page=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$                                 index.php?area=$1 [L]

I need to be able to hit /stats directly (without any rewriting).

Tried adding this directly under RewriteBase:

RewriteRule ^stats/ [L]

but it didn't work

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

BIll

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas