Htaccess Rewrite

[yhack]

So, this is my current .htaccess:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteRule about/ about.php
RewriteRule about about.php
RewriteRule contact/ contact.php
RewriteRule contact contact.php
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)$ index.php?album=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)/$ index.php?album=$1

Which works fine at the moment, but when I want to go to a folder that actually exists, it sends the page to index.php?album=<foldername>, instead of the actual folder.

So, how can I make it so when I go to website.com/blog/, it goes to website.com/blog/ instead of website.com/index.php?album=blog

I tried

RewriteRule blog/ blog/

but that doesn't work.

Google doesn't seem to be helping a great deal.

Any help would be much appreciated.

edit: Solved

For anyone interested, this fixes it.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteRule about/ about.php
RewriteRule about about.php
RewriteRule contact/ contact.php
RewriteRule contact contact.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog/?$
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)$ index.php?album=$1
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog/?$
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)/$ index.php?album=$1

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog/?$

Before the RewriteRule makes it ignore the folder /blog/

 

[Crowze]

Perhaps a better solution would be to use the -f and -d flags to check for existing files and directories, as follows:

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

 

[yhack]

That is better, yeah. Cheers