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Something I just noticed is that if you have a wordpress blog hosted at the root of a domain, you cannot access the /stats folder, since the mod_rewrite code in wordpress over-rides it, and tries to acccess one of it’s own pages. So I’ve just gone a little googling and found that if you add the line:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-U

To the .htaccess file it will allow you to access the stats report, and still keep WordPress happy.

Seems like the Apache Manual is actually useful – http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritecond – scroll down a bit.

But since I know, well, next to nothing about mod_rewrite this may not be the best/most efficient way of doing it, so if it could cause any problems, or if there is a better way please let me know!