Question

I have my wordpress in a sub-folder on my domain with a .htacess file on the root which does all the redirecting.

i want to do a redirect, the site IP to WWW. which works for the main site on the root but not for the sub-folder which is WordPress.

iv got a feeling wordpress is overwriting this some where?

this is what iv used in root .htaccess

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^IP.IP.IP.IP [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.NAME.com/$1 [R=301,L] 

but this does not work for the wordpress sub-folder
iv even tried to copy this into the .htaccess file in the WP root folder but still not work

Answer 1

It is because in your WordPress wp-admin panel there is a setting:

Settings -> General -> WordPress address (URL)

and

Settings -> General -> Blog address (URL)

Make sure to update them to http://www.domain.com/subfolder then it will start working.

UPDATE (Based on your comments)

Use following .htaccess inside WP install folder ‘/blog’

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /blog/

RewriteRule ^/?$ /blog/index.php [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^IP\.IP\.IP\.IP$
RewriteRule . http://www.NAME.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

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

# END WordPress