subdirectory redirects

help with htacess redirects

[philsoft]

Hi all am very very new to this forum and htacess redirects hopeing for some help with my problem?

Basically I have one domain name and subfolder.

like
(main url)
www.example.co.uk/subdirectory

RewriteRule to
www.example.co.uk/subdirectory/subdirectory1/index.php


please note the url for htacess file is

www.example.co.uk/subdirectory/.htacess


I have tried this

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdirectory/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdirectory1/index.php$1 [L]


Any help thank you

[phranque]

welcome to WebmasterWorld, philsoft!

what are you requesting?
what is your expected result?
what was the response?

are you trying to do an internal rewrite or a redirect?

[philsoft]

think its an internal rewrite?

Original code was for domain name only

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.co\.uk$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.co\.uk$
RewriteRule ^.*$ urls/index.php [L]

but mine has domain/subdirectory

[g1smd]

Are you trying to redirect requests for one URL so that the user makes a request for a different URL?

OR

Are you internally rewriting a request such that requesting a particular URL internally fetches content from a different place from inside the server?

You need to talk about requests in terms of URLs (including protocol and hostname) and internal paths and filenames (without hostnames).

[philsoft]

sorry start again, the Original working code is for a domain name only

example: www.example.co.uk/.htaccess

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.co\.uk$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.co\.uk$
RewriteRule ^.*$ subdirectory1/index.php [L]


where subdirectory1/index.php is to the short url script.

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I have my files and short url script under a subdirectory

example: www.example.co.uk/subdirectory/

and so www.example.co.uk/subdirectory/.htaccess


I have tried


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.co\.uk\subdirectory$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.co\.uk\subdirectory$
RewriteRule ^.*$ subdirectory/subdirectory1/index.php [L]


where subdirectory/subdirectory1/index.php is to the short url script.

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[g1smd]

OK. You appear to have two internal rewrites.

The internal rewrite in the root htaccess file uses the pattern .* and so it matches ALL requests for root URLs and all folder URLs.

You need to list your folder URL rule BEFORE the catch-all rule. It needs a "more specific" pattern to capture those requests before the "more general" pattern in the later rule captures them.

You cannot have this sub-folder rule in the htaccess file in a sub-folder. The .* pattern in the root htaccess will have already tried to deal with the request.

Additionally the HTTP_HOST condition can test only the hostname without protocol and without path or file. The RegEx pattern must include ONLY the hostname (with literal periods escaped of course).
The two host conditions simplify to:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?example\.co\.uk\

It's also a mystery why you want the rule to work only when a specific hostname is NOT requested.

[philsoft]

Im very new to this? do mean somthing like

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdirectory/
RewriteRule ^.*$ subdirectory/subdirectory1/index.php [L]

[philsoft]

It's also a mystery why you want the rule to work only when a specific hostname is NOT requested.......

I have two databases/scripts runnung under two subdirectories.

www.example.co.uk/subdirectory script1/
www.example.co.uk/subdirectory script2/

if that makes sence...



and need

[philsoft]

....The internal rewrite in the root htaccess file uses the pattern .* and so it matches ALL requests for root URLs and all folder URLs.


Please note, am not using the root htaccess file this was only an example of the working script.....www.example.co.uk/.htaccess

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.co\.uk$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.co\.uk$
RewriteRule ^.*$ subdirectory1/index.php [L]


where subdirectory1/index.php is to the short url script.

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I need it work under the subdirectory

any help please...

[lucy24]

Can you go all the way back to the beginning, please? Pretend that you have never heard the words redirect, rewrite, root, host, directory, htaccess et cetera. You are allowed to use the words "address bar" (as in the user's browser) if you need to.

Now just explain in English

#1 What the user does
and
#2 What is supposed to happen when they do this.

Repeat for each different set of actions. Make up two or more examples for each pattern.

It may or may not be helpful to show a few cases of

#3 Things the user might do that are OK the way they are and don't need to be changed in any way.