Wordpress is killing my rewrite in another directory

I have a "go" directory where I use urls like mydomain.com/go/digitalpoint
Links like mydomain.com/go/digitalpoint used to work, I have touched nothing, but now they go to a WordPress 404 page.
If I use mydomain.com/go/index.php?s=digitalpoint then it works fine.

Wordpress installed in root directory.

/.htaccess (created by WordPress)

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

Code (markup):

/go/.htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/?$ index.php?s=$1 [QSA,L]

Code (markup):

/go/index.php

$keyword = $_GET['s'];
echo $keyword;

PHP:

The broken site is hosted at HostGator.
I am using exactly the same files on a different host, and it works fine.

Any ideas?

 

Looks like an execution order thing for the .htaccess files (one host is running the .htaccess in the go directory first, the other one, the other way around). Do you have access to the underlying Apache conf files (like a VPN or something)? Then you could just put them in there.

Another option would be to put the /go/.htaccess file into the WordPress .htaccess file before WordPress's normal rewrite rules. Like something along these lines (I didn't test it, but something along those lines):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteBase /
	
	RewriteRule ^go/(.*)	go/index.php?s=$1 [QSA, L]
	
	RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
	RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Code (apache):