WP Site in subdirectory Joomla! Site – Permalinks not working

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I have WordPress in a test folder inside the root directory where I Joomla! 3.x site is running. Somehow the Joomla! rewrite rules are interfering with the WordPress permalinks rules. I keep on getting Joomla! 404 messages and some odd: 

file_get_contents(url) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in /path/to/file.php on line 16

errors. I try to resolve these specific errors here on StackOverflow.

Is there a way I can make Joomla! only worry about Joomla! pages and make WordPress have its permalinks work again? I have not been able to come up with a rewrite rule or condition that works thus far. I tried the one mentioned here as well. I used

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^foldername

which I added to the Joomla! .htaccess file just below the line where it says RewriteEngine On

No luck so far..

Update

See answer below. It was a faulty WP .htacces after all. Once it was correct is started working and ignoring the Joomla! .htaccess.

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I found out that with the extra rewrite rule added to the Joomla! .htaccess file and with the corrected WordPress .htaccess file – wrong paths – the site started working again. I removed the Joomla! rewrite rule to ignore the WP folder and WP seems to be able to stand on its own now.

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