Wordpress hi-jacking my Codeigniter URLs

[eluser]Jakobud[/eluser]
My client's homepage uses Wordpress. Lets say their website is here:

Code:

http://www.clowning.com

I'm developing a SEPARATE CodeIgniter application on the same server here:

Code:

http://www.clowning.com/salesapp/

So Wordpress is in the root directory, and CodeIgniter is in a subdirectory.

Now I've installed CodeIgniter in this location and I can get the main controller to be read fine:

Code:

<?php

class Main extends Controller {

    function Main()
    {
        parent::Controller();    
    }
    
    function index()
    {
        echo "hello world";
    }
}

However, when I add another function like this:

Code:

<?php

class Main extends Controller {

    function Main()
    {
        parent::Controller();    
    }
    
    function index()
    {
        echo "hello world";
    }

    function test()
    {
        
        echo "testing!";
    }
}

and visit the following URL:

Code:

http://www.clowning.com/salesapp/main/test/

or even this

Code:

http://www.clowning.com/salesapp/main/

I get Wordpress's 404 Not found page.

Can anyone help me with the problem here? Keep in mind, I'm not trying to integrate Wordpress w/ CodeIgniter. They are to be kept separate. I just need to keep Wordpress from hijacking the URLs.

Here is my root directory's .htaccess

Code:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I thought that I could just add in the condition:

Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?salesapp

to force Wordpress to ignore the salesapp directory, but it doesn't seem to be working. How do I change that condition to work for anything that starts with /salesapp/ ?