Our WordPress site is in a subfolder /subwp/, and all pages except the home page work. This is the root folder:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /subwp/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /subwp/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
When visiting the homepage (e.g. http://example.com/) I get the hosting providers default site (‘this domain is hosted by xyz’). All other slugged pages work perfectly.
Just to make sure that the hosting provider is not somehow auto redirecting requests to /, I created a file named index.php with just ‘blah’ in it, to see if it would work then, and then if I visit http://example.com, I see the text ‘blah’ (and also all other pages display blah now :))
I’m kinda stuck. Any ideas?
Answers:
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Method 1
Because when you request the document root, the rule in .htaccess does not match and the request is not rewritten to the subdirectory. So the request falls through and whatever is the default response for the document root is served (eg. /index.php if it exists).
You need to add another directive to rewrite the homepage only.
(The first RewriteRule directive is not correct either.)
For example:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /subwp/
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# Special case - rewrite requests for the homepage (which is also a directory)
RewriteRule ^$ index.php [L]
Since you are using RewriteBase you can remove the /subwp/ prefix on the RewriteRule substitution strings (that’s the whole point of using RewriteBase).
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