.htaccess

in subdirectories

[universetoday]

I've switched my site from HTML based to a Wordpress content management system, and I'm trying get all the old pages to forward nicely to the new pages. I can get the .htaccess redirect to work from the root directory, but not from the subdirectory where the HTML files are located. I figure I don't want to bloat up my root .htaccess, it'll just slow the site down.

Any commands I put into the subdirectory .htaccess are just ignored, like the file doesn't even exist.

Is there a setting I can set? I find mucking with the .htaccess to be very dangerous. I often take my entire server offline with a simple typo.

[jdMorgan]

Please post an example of the code you tried in your top-level directory, and the code you tried in the subdirectory. It's a bit hard to diagnose the patient if we can look at it...

Jim

[universetoday]

Ahah, I figured it out. I need to have the full path to the URL regardless of its directory location.

For example:

/.htaccess
Redirect /full/path/file.html [site.com...]
... works

/full/path/.htaccess
Redirect file.html [site.com...]
... doesn't

You need to have this, regardless of the location of the .htaccess file.
Redirect /full/path/file.html [site.com...]

Will Apache only load this .htaccess file if it tries to access the directory? I'll eventually have a few thousand redirects in here, so I don't want my server trying to load this file every time it loads a file off the entire webserver.

[jdMorgan]

> Will Apache only load this .htaccess file if it tries to access the directory?

Yes, only .htaccess files in the path to the requested resource are processed.

Jim