mightywebdeveloper

I understand ?? And I might. Webp is already an enourmous leap in terms of filesize.

Thank you for your swift reply. A little misleading but yes it did the trick, so thanks!

Never mind I figured it out.

Adding the line
RewriteRule ^tools/.*$ – [L]

right after
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

did the trick.