.htaccess conflict

Hey Guys,

Need some help please.

I have recently used WordPress to create a new site for a client. The client has his own gallery which they want to use which has it’s own rewrite via the .htaccess file. This works fine with no problems.

However when I use the permalinks within wordpress to customise the URL’s of the posts and pages i have some problems.

The permalinks I am using is https://www.domain.com/%postname%/ so https://www.domain.com/?page_id=4 for example should become https://www.domain.com/contact

While an example of the URL for the gallery will be:

https://www.domain.com/dates/city/76/1186/venue.htm these URLs are not found and I get a 404 Error when the permalinks is being used

Any ideas how I can fix this issue?!…

The full .htaccess rewrite is:

[CODE
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

RewriteEngine on

# rules for gallery which works fine
RewriteRule ^locations/([A-Za-z]+)\.htm$ /photos.php?l=$1
RewriteRule ^photos/([A-Za-z]+)/([0-9]+)/([^/]+)\.htm$ /photos.php?l=$1&v=$2
RewriteRule ^club_dates/([A-Za-z]+)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([^/]+)_page([0-9]+)\.htm$ /photos.php?l=$1&v=$2&e=$3&p=$5

[/CODE]

any help will be appreciated.

Thanks