CodeIgniter URL rewrite - but not on the XAMPP directory

I'd like to take out the index.php from all of the pages served by CodeIgniter - but I want to still be able to access everything inside my XAMPP folder as normal.

This is my directory structure :

htdocs\
.\Application\
.\XAMPP\
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My .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php [L]

So, I'd like to be able to see my application as http:\\localhost\controller\method\arg instead of http:\\localhost\index.php\controller\method\arg.

But I also want to be able to see http:\\localhost\XAMPP\index.php - XAMPP has my control panel in it like MySQL and I can't get to it with my .htaccess file in place (because it rewrites to http:\\localhost\XAMPP\ and not http:\\localhost\XAMPP\index.php ) .

Is this possible, how can I do it?

If I well understand your question just put an .htaccess file into XAMPP directory with the directive RewriteEngine off. It should work