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manumoomoo
Asked: 2010-03-12 01:06:52 +0800 CST

.htaccess send requests to a subfolder's index.php

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I have searched StackOverflow for my answer, but nothing that I have seen seems to work.

I have a framework that sends all requests to an index.php file. Everything works when I install it in the root of the virtual host:

http://example.com/
http://example.com/home
http://example.com/home/index

The problem happens when I try to install the framework in a subdirectory like:

http://example.com/blog/

Requests like:

http://example.com/blog/home
http://example.com/blog/home/index

All of those requests should be sent to the index.php file that lives in /blog

My current set up is:

http://example.com/index.php - This file just prints out "we are in the root of the virtual host". The framework is not installed there.

http://example.com/blog - This works fine

When I try to get to http://example.com/blog/home I get the root index.php file, not the frameworks. I get the message "we are in the root of the virtual host".

I have the following .htaccess file located at http://example.com/blog/.htaccess.

RewriteEngine on

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css)$ index.php

Any help is greatly appreciated.

php .htaccess mod-rewrite

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The answer that fixed my problem is:

    RewriteEngine On

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css)$ index.php

    It appears that the Multiviews was throwing it off.

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  2. RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css)$ index.php

    Means "if not js or ico..." forward to index.php.

    So, in essence, your /blog level .htaccess is saying if it's not an image or CSS file redirect it to /blog/index.php.

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  3. RewriteBase /blog

    Try it without the forward slash.

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  4. Are the requests that you're testing with for items that don't actually exist in the directory? These lines:

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

    Mean that any requests for a file or directory that exists won't be rewritten.

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