Special Rewrites htaccess

[mmstud]

Hi,

I have tried to read docs and see help from Google but didnt find for these cases.

1) I get some requests to my site like domain/.html. How is it possible to redirect those requests to site root. I dont want to use error directive here.

2) I have a single wordpress installation for multiple sites, but cant figure, if it is possible to have installation to work from domain root. Currently I have direcotry structure like:

domain/.htaccess
domain/index.php -> redirects to domain/blog/
domain/blog/ -> symbolic link to /usr/share/wordpress/

.htaccess file contains:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Id like to have blog on root so that hxxp://www.domain.ext/ shows the blog. At the moment hxxp://www.domain.ext/blog/ shows the blog.

My own experiments with rewrite rules just leads to infinite loops and I cant figure out how to do this...

3) Is it possible to import multiple htaccess files and directive for one directory? I have multiple sites, which have similar lines for handling files, but also domain specific parts. It would be handy to include common part from separate file when I just update that file if changes occurs, not all 20 htaccess files.

domain/.htaccess -> import /usr/share/.htaccess_common

[dklynn]

mm,

Welcome to SitePoint's Apache forum!

Did you have a read of the mod_rewrite tutorial linked in my signature. It was developed from years of answering the same questions in this forum over and over and ...

1) I get some requests to my site like domain/.html. How is it possible to redirect those requests to site root. I dont want to use error directive here.

The PROPER way is to use ErrorDocument. After all, what IDIOT would use a link like that?

Okay, if you need to cater to idiots on your site, I understand. If you don't want to use ErrorDocument, I don't understand but we can build mod_rewrite code to do the same thing (only slower). HOWEVER, is it just the .html that you want to send to DocumentRoot (what is the DirectoryIndex?) or ALL 404's?

2) I have a single wordpress installation for multiple sites, but cant figure, if it is possible to have installation to work from domain root. Currently I have direcotry structure like:

domain/.htaccess
domain/index.php -> redirects to domain/blog/
domain/blog/ -> symbolic link to /usr/share/wordpress/

.htaccess file contains:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Id like to have blog on root so that hxxp://www.domain.ext/ shows the blog. At the moment hxxp://www.domain.ext/blog/ shows the blog.

My own experiments with rewrite rules just leads to infinite loops and I cant figure out how to do this...

That's because it's a circular redirection that you're executing. The way to get blog to DocumentRoot is to MOVE IT to the DocumentRoot (and change the WP configuration files - it's as simple as that).

If you do, however, REMOVE the <IfModule> brackets as those are a sure sign that you are NOT a competent webmaster. Either you have mod_rewrite enabled or you don't but DON'T test for every file request!

3) Is it possible to import multiple htaccess files and directive for one directory? I have multiple sites, which have similar lines for handling files, but also domain specific parts. It would be handy to include common part from separate file when I just update that file if changes occurs, not all 20 htaccess files.

domain/.htaccess -> import /usr/share/.htaccess_common

[/quote]
Of course. However, look at the code as there may be conflicting code (especially when WP wants to redirect EVERYTHING [that is not a file or directory] to its own index.php script).

Regards,

DK