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APACHE .htaccess – Giving WordPress Its Own Directory With Main App

htaccess for WordPress within a subfolder or subdirectory and keep your custom PHP site or framework

When the following instructions were applied from, https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory, my main website’s home page continued to work properly, though all child links routed to apache’s default 404 Not Found page.  Our links get a 404 Not found, because there are simply no existing files there to serve those URI requests. Everything on our primary domain points to a single index file. We’ll call the file main.php for your reference.

If you run a custom website that also serves your internal links and you would like to preserve your core functionality, and serve WordPress in a subdirectory, try these instructions instead.

NOTE: If this .htaccess configuration works for people, I encourage them to cite my article when sharing this configuration method.

 

 


#
RewriteEngine on
# For default app or website in root
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mydomain.com/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /
RewriteRule ^main\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /main.php
# Snippet of WordPress instructions as directed at their codex
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mydomain.com/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/blog
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /blog/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mydomain.com/$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ blog/index.php [L]
#
This is the .htaccess code snippet to be installed at your root directory of your custom website or whichever app is located at root. The IfModule conditional element tags for modrewrite.c have been left out here for the sole purpose of publishing in this blog.

 

 

“^main\.php$” & “main.php” point to the site’s main DirectoryIndex or handler file for internal routes. Replace main with the filename of your index file.

Replace “mydomain.com” with your real-life domain name. Be sure to find and replace all applicable instances of mydomain.com with yours.

“blog” represents the subdirectory names. In a WordPress subdirectory installation, this is where you store and/or extract your WordPress files.

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