Question

I’m trying to get my .htaccess file to work from the root, but also use RewriteRule for a sub-directory.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options +FollowSymlinks
    RewriteEngine On

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

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/admin/index.php$ [NC]
    RewriteRule ^admin/(.*)$ /admin/index.php?_pd=$1 [QSA,L]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?_pd=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

However I get 404 errors when trying to access /admin/login etc etc. This kind of works:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options +FollowSymlinks
    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?_pd=$1 [QSA,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/admin/index.php$ [NC]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^admin/(.*)$ /admin/index.php?_pd=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

But not how it should do. Some things work, some don’t.

Answer 1

This was actually caused because I had missed out on including that there is an ErrorDocument in the .htaccess apparently, since the admin folder didn’t include this same document, it wasn’t following the rules like it should, and trying to supply me with that file instead.