Question

My intention here is to have a codeigniter app with a blog under the same domain. The admin for both should be separate.

The directory structure is this:

httpdocs/.htaccess
httpdocs/application/ <== CI installation
httpdocs/blog/        <== WP installation
httpdocs/blog/.htaccess

URLs would be like this:

mysite.com         <== CI
mysite.com/tools   <== CI
mysite.com/forum   <== CI
mysite.com/blog    <== WP

I followed this tutorial to set up and it worked nicely.

Both my codeigniter app and WP blog home page show exactly as they should, with correct URLs, styles etc.

I can also access mysite.com/blog/wp-admin normally for WP back end stuff.

My issue is when I try to access an actual blog post, for example:

mysite.com/blog/fiction/what-is-going-on/

When I do this, I get Codeigniter’s 404 error page.

My root .htaccess (httpdocs/.htaccess) is this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

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

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|robots\.txt|blog|assets)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

My blog .htaccess (httpdocs/blog/.htaccess) is this:

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

Any idea what I’m doing wrong? Will post more info if requested. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

OK the solution is to use

CI .htaccess

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

and

WP .htaccess

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

That did the trick. Now all pages show without a problem.