.htaccess and subdomains

Hey Folks am seemingly having problems with .htaccess files.

The problem:

I have a wp install in the root directory. In a sub-directory (not a domain) there is Modx. When I enter the url to the root/modx the url is treated like a wp link and it goes back to the homepage. In other words I think the .htaccess is overriding.

The main directory (wp) has this .ht file (after digging around for a solution)

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^office/.*$ - [PT]
# BEGIN Word开发者_JS百科Press
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
</IfModule>

This is the one in the subdirectory

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /cms

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

well you could add the following rule to your wp .htaccess just before the RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !modx