title: htaccess redirect all but one page from html to php
body: <p>My site is set up with htaccess directing all pages from html to php as below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^website.com
  RewriteRule (.*) http://www.website.com/$1 [R=301,L]
  
  RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html$ http://www.website.com/$1.php [R=301,L]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am trying to set up Yahoo Site Explorer and to verify my account I need to either add a meta tag or add a html file to my website root folder. Yahoo is refusing to recognize my meta tag (I am sure I have added it correctly)! So my only option is to add the html file.</p>
  
  <p>My html file keeps getting redirected to php and it seems yahoo cannot find it.</p>
  
  <p>Is there something I can add to my htaccess file so that all files are redirected to php apart from the one file yahoo needs to see?</p>