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GluePear
GluePear

Reputation: 7715

Two htaccess files

I have a question about using multiple .htaccess files - I couldn't find the answer to this after looking elsewhere on stackoverflow, so I hope you guys can help.

I currently have one .htaccess file in the root of my site, which performs a simple url rewrite:

Options -MultiViews
# CheckSpelling off
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?url=$1 [L]
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

I'm currently working on the second phase of development of this site, and I've made a replica in a subfolder (e.g. www.abcdef.com/new/). The trouble is, at the moment if I click a link on this replica site, it redirects me to the root, original page, whereas I want it to go to the equivalent page in the new/ folder. I've put another .htaccess file in this new/ folder, which however doesn't have any noticeable effect:

Options -MultiViews
# CheckSpelling off
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /new/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /new/index.php?url=$1 [L]
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

So my question is: is it permissible to have another .htaccess file in a subfolder like this? And if so, why aren't the above lines working?

Thanks in advance for any ideas on this!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 13936

Answers (3)

CyberDude
CyberDude

Reputation: 8949

You say

The trouble is, at the moment if I click a link on this replica site, it redirects me to the root, original page, whereas I want it to go to the equivalent page in the new/ folder.

Could it be that you are using absolute links in your pages and not relative ones? For instance if a link looks like "/sample", when in your main site it will link to http://.../sample and the same is true if the link is inside a page under "/new/". If you'd use just "sample" then that would resolve as http://..../sample or http://...../new/sample, depending on the URL of the page.

Upvotes: 0

buley
buley

Reputation: 29208

It's possible to have multiple .htaccess files, and the system is designed to work the way you want it to.

You're setting RewriteBase, which explicitly sets the base URL-path (not filesystem directory path!) for per-directory rewrites.

So it seems like your requests would be rewritten to /new/new/index.php, a path and directory which probably doesn't exist on your filesystem (thus not meeting your RewriteConds) and such is being redirected to your /index.php 404.

As a test, perhaps try changing the ErrorDocument to:

ErrorDocument 404 /new/index.php

If you see rewritten calls go to this then it might indeed be your RewriteBase.

Upvotes: 2

David Wolever
David Wolever

Reputation: 154454

Having a second htaccess file in a subdirectory shouldn't be an issue, and as far as I can tell, your two look okay.

Are you sure the links in the site are correct? (ex, they are /new/foo, not just /foo)?

Upvotes: 0

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