HTACCESS HELP!!! PLEASE ...

[eluser]ChangedNames[/eluser]
If I understand you correctly you don't want index.php to process any of the xml or xml.gz files. If that is the case you might try something like this:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|tinymce|config|forum|uploads|js|img|css|tmp|public|user_guide|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

This is adding in 2 conditions saying "If the file requested IS NOT actually a file then process index.php"

So if you have .xml files (or .xml.gz files) on your server the .htaccess file shouldn't be routing it to index.php.