You seem to have made a mistake with the rewrite rule. I think you mean: RewriteRule (\.svn)/(.*?) - [F,L] Note the backslash before the .svn directory. I'

You seem to have made a mistake with the rewrite rule. I think you mean: RewriteRule (\.svn)/(.*?) - [F,L] Note the backslash before the .svn directory. I'm also not entirely sure that the question mark (zero or one quantifier) is necessary; it seems like (.*) would suffice for catching files within the .svn directory, but this is quickly getting out of my league.