Question

This should be simple – can’t figure out where I’m going wrong:

We have WordPress installed in the following location: http://example.com/gallery/cms
and I want the site to be visible at http://example.com/gallery

I have the WordPress Address set to http://example.com/gallery/cms and the Site Address set to http://example.com/gallery

I copied the .htaccess and index.php to the /gallery folder. The .htaccess contains the following code:

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

The index.php contains the following code:

define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./cms/wp-blog-header.php');

The home page loads up fine, but any interior pages kick of a “Not Found” error: http://playstartshere.com/gallery/specs/ yields The requested URL /gallery/specs/ was not found on this server.

Where am I going wrong? I tried changing index.php to:

define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./gallery/cms/wp-blog-header.php');

but that broke the site entirely.

EDIT: ANSWER

Apache was indeed incorrectly configured; RewriteEngine was not enabled. However, the .htaccess was also wrong. Correct .htaccess for a configuration like what’s above is:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /gallery/cms/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /gallery/cms/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Hope that helps someone else.

Answer 1

/gallery/specs/ is matched by this rule:

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

which block access

Try /gallery/.htaccess with:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

without / prepending index.php, apache will search in current directory

edit

Once again with different approach:

set all wordpress URLs to http://example.com/gallery
put all wordpress files in /gallery/cms

put one .htaccess in /gallery/cms

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

put second .htaccess in /gallery (without index.php)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/gallery/cms
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /gallery/cms/$1 [L]