I'm trying to integrate a third-party produced, "shiny-object" web site that isn't going to be integrated into Drupal; however, it should show up as a "sub directory" within the main domain. For example, www.example.com/* is a Drupal 7 managed URL/Domain, but I'd like www.example.com/shiny to be served straight through Apache without Drupal taking over. I've seen similar requests here and elsewhere that have what seem like a very simple solution, just add...
DirectoryIndex index.php index.shtml index.html
...to a .htaccess file in the directory you wish to manage. Seems simple enough, but it doesn't appear to work in Drupal 7, perhaps due to changes in the main .htaccess file, perhaps due to some implied additional instructions that I'm unaware of...I'm not well versed with .htaccess, so if I'm taking the instructions at face value, in other words, following the instructions exactly as presented, creating a blank file called .htaccess in textmate and adding the above line to it and saving in the directory (which I assume is in my sites/www.example.com/shiny folder).
Has anyone been able to include content within a Drupal managed URL that isn't managed by Drupal in Drupal 7? If so, can you explain how? To a non-.htaccess squire? Is there a module for that? Does the above solution actually work, if so what am I missing besides all of it? Thanks?
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