how do you bypass .htaccess?

[eluser]cahva[/eluser]
This is in the userguide:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

That RewriteCond is translated: if url doesnt start with index.php, images or robots.txt then rewrite the url.
I you have similar, add magento folder to RewriteCond.