Problem with htaccess - How to make it affect firt directory only

[Jawn]

Hi,
I have a htaccess file under home/user/public_html/.htaccess
But it affects all my other websites aswell they are in

home/user/public_html/my main website
home/user/public_html/website1/
home/user/public_html/website2/


Problem is that it affects my other webpages website 1 and website 2
Is there a way to avoid this? its giving me a lot of problems.

This is how it currently looks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*images.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.js.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*forum.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*admin.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.gif.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.bmp.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.%.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.jpg.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.htm.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.css.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.swf.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.php.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.txt.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.png.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.dcr.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.dir.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.rar.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.zip.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.pl.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.tmpl.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.pm.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*/$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [L]

Would appreciate if someone could help me

Best Regards
Jawn

 

[TwistMyArm]

Why don't you just move the file into the directory you want it to affect?

 

[Noobie]

Here's a cheap solution
dump an htaccess in every child directory and use
RewriteEngine Off (I think this is the answer, i'll look further)

 

[Jawn]

Why don't you just move the file into the directory you want it to affect?

It is in a directory where i need it
My main website is under home/user/public_html/
but my other websites are under

home/user/public_html/website2/
home/user/public_html/website3/

I cant shut off rewriteengine in each website directory cuz i use htaccess
on the other websites :/ however they do have their own htaccess