Redirect Domain to SubDir Without Screwing Other Redirects

htaccess is fun... well maybe not

[ispreview]

I've installed WordPress in a SubDir (/content) and am using pathinfo instead of mod_rewrite to handle pretty URLs (because WP's mod_rewrite borks my site's existing rewrites) and so ordinarily it would be a simple matter of redirecting visitors of my domain to the SubDir.

But several other domains are attached to my site, so I use some code that makes them all go to

http://www.mysite.com 

(i.e. requests for

http://www.coosite.com 

or

http://coosite.com 

would become

http://www.mysite.com

). This avoids Google's duplication penalty and ensures that "www" is always used (I don't like that but I need it for license reasons).

The code I use for this is simple and clean (hopefully).

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.co.uk [NC] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ 
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.mysite.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

Now I can't figure out how to then do a rewrite that directs

http://www.mysite.co.uk 

visitors to wordpress in my /content dir, at least not without breaking the above multi-domain redirect. I tried putting this below and it sent the server slow and crashing.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !content/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ content/$1 [L]

On top of that I also want to ensure that any calls to index.html or index.shtml are directed to the subdir as well. What's the best way of doing this?

[g1smd]

The index redirect can be done with a separate RewriteCond and RewriteRule placed before the canonical ruleset.

In your existing RewriteCond change

!^www\.example\.co.uk [NC]

(why escape only two of the three periods?) to this new pattern

!^(www\.example\.co\.uk)?$

and remove both the [NC] flag and the second RewriteCond.

[ispreview]

Putting the subdir redirect before the HTTP_Host call just causes the server to hang, the same as if I were to put it after.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !content/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ content/$1 [L]

Some people have suggested to use something like this:

RewriteRule ^(/)?$ content [L]

But ideally when people visit I want them to see the /content under the domain itself and not a URL like [mysite.co.uk...] . But then I'm affraid that forcing that might break existing and or future redirects.. ugh. what a headache :) .

[g1smd]

Let's see the code you are talking about (with corrections and additions as noted above).

[ispreview]

I'm experimenting with Pathinfo instead of rewrite's for WP so that I can hopefully avoid this :) .