Thanks for your reply, I have the .htaccess in the manager folder with RewriteEngine Off.
I don't know much about mod_rewrite, but found this on a WP forum post.
This appears to work
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain\.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)
http://www.mydomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(manager).*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA
[ed. note: goginan last edited this post 10 years, 11 months ago.]