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I could sure use a little help with what I am trying to do with a RewriteRule in .htaccess: ...to causes URLs using our sharpedge. subdomain to auto-load from the Internet_IE directory - one level deeper than the site root.

I have this in httpd.conf:

[snip] NameVirtualHost 11.22.33.44 <VirtualHost 11.22.33.44> Options All +ExecCGI ServerAdmin [email protected] DocumentRoot /var/www/html/ourdomain.com ServerName ourdomain.com ServerAlias www.ourdomain.com DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.dna #--------------------------------- <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L] </IfModule> #--------------------------------- </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 11.22.33.44> Options All +ExecCGI ServerAdmin [email protected] DocumentRoot /var/www/html/ourdomain.com ServerName sharpedge.ourdomain.com DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.dna #--------------------------------- <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L] </IfModule> #--------------------------------- </VirtualHost> [snip]

...and this in .htaccess (in the site root, here: /var/www/html/ourdomain.com/)

Options -Indexes <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sharpedge\.ourdomain\.com$ # years ago this next line was used here, but in httpd.conf: (I don't know what it was supposed to do) # RewriteRule ^(.+) %{HTTP_HOST}$1 [C] RewriteRule ^sharpedge\.ourdomain\.com(.*) /var/www/html/ourdomain.com/Internet_IE/$1 [L] </IfModule>

..but nothing happens from the RewriteRule; it is as if the RewriteRule was not there.

I'd much appreciate any suggestions.

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  • I would've just changed the DocumentRoot to the directory I actually want to serve, but I need to be able to call (include) files from within files in that directory with a prefixing / in the include path, where those files are located in the site root. Those files are also similarly called from other files that are in the site root.
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this did it:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sharpedge\.ourdomain\.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/Internet_IE/ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /Internet_IE/$1 [L]

Thanks goes to: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11744085/530006

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You don't need a rewrite rule for that. Just change the DocumentRoot to the directory you actually want to serve.

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  • Thanks Michael, I'm sorry I neglected to add a crucial point to my OP about why that does not work for me... which I just added to the end of my OP. Commented Jul 31, 2012 at 14:11
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    So don't turn on PHP safe mode. It's deprecated anyway. Commented Jul 31, 2012 at 15:33
  • This is not a PHP site. The site uses another server side scripting language where I include files like so: [include file=/fileH.inc]. That path worked on the previous host (to call the fileH.inc file, located in the site root), but on our new host: if I set httpd.conf like so: [snip] DocumentRoot /var/www/html/ourdomain.com/Internet_IE , ServerName sharpedge.ourdomain.com [snip], then include paths with a prefixing / do not look in site root, but starting from the Internet_IE/ directory. I need include paths to be with reference to site root. Commented Jul 31, 2012 at 16:06

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