Possibly Redunant or Misguided htaccess rewrites

[citizenKayne]

Hello,

To make a long story short, I have a website running off of magento in a 1st level sub-folder. Its a relatively small website with about 65 products and probably a total of around 300 pages which is including dynamic pages as well. I have an extension installed that helps me put canonical tags and NOINDEX,FOLLOW tags on a majority of pages like reviews, wishlist, etc.. However, GWT is currently indexing over 900 pages which an extra 50 appeared a couple of days ago.

I think my .htaccess is setup incorrectly because this "/magento/index.php" and "/magento/" are showing up in some of the Internal Links and HTML Improvements content displayed in GWT.

Here's some of the rewrite section of my .htaccess in my root folder.

 
 Options +FollowSymLinks
 RewriteEngine on

 RewriteBase /magento


############################################
## always send 404 on missing files in these folders

 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(media|skin|js)/

############################################
## never rewrite for existing files, directories and links

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

############################################
## rewrite everything else to index.php

 RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
 RewriteRule ^$ /magento/ [QSA,L]
 RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule !^(magento|subdirN)(/.*)?$ /magento%{REQUEST_URI} [QSA,L]

Would the .htaccess in the magento installation folder be affecting this as well, or is it primarily the one in the root folder?

Thanks in advance for any assistance/direction.

[lucy24]

Would the .htaccess in the magento installation folder

Do you have more than one htaccess file, both containing RewriteRules? Consolidate them all into one file. It is technically possible to have RewriteRules in more than one place along the same path, but you should go to great lengths to avoid it.

:: insert "Do as I say, not as I do" boilerplate ::

Also:
All that #commenting is good. But you MUST place your blank lines appropriately. DO put a blank line after each RewriteRule. DON'T put blank lines after a RewriteCond. This is for your own information; it doesn't affect the working of the rules. Blank lines don't have syntactic meaning, but you need to be able to tell at a glance where one ruleset stops and another begins.

Another thing you should go to great lengths to avoid is multiple -f or -d lookups for the same request. Even one is rarely necessary or appropriate.

[citizenKayne]

Thanks for replying lucy24. This is the .htaccess that's in the sub-folder which is my magento installation folder:

############################################
## always send 404 on missing files in these folders

 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(media|skin|js)/

############################################
## never rewrite for existing files, directories and links

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

############################################
## rewrite everything else to index.php

 RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

As you can see its practically the same as whats in the root, minus the '/magento" rewrites. It's the standard one that comes with a Magento installation so I left it as is. However since you mentioned that its possible to have rewriting done twice due to multiple .htaccess files, I'm wondering if this one is causing some of it?

And thanks for the other advice as well. With my root .htaccess, I see where I'm kind of saying the same thing twice. Once with the 3 conditions followed by 2 rewrites, then 2 conditions followed by 1 rewrite. Is that correct?