I have an eCommerce website in the root directory and want to move my blog to a subdirectory. I successfully made the move from another domain to this one but when I attempt to go to the blog home page it re-directs to my eCommerce site’s home page.
The eCommerce site – http://www.heavytshirt.com
The blog location – http://www.heavytshirt.com/blog
The .htaccess file in the blog directory looks like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
And the .htaccess file in the root directory looks like this:
DirectoryIndex /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^mm5/admin.mvc? - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^product/([^/.]+).html$ /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_code=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^category/([^/.]+).html$ /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_code=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^product/([^/]+)/([^/.]+).html$ /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Category_code=$1&Product_code=$2 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+).html$ /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=$1 [L]
### End - Inserted by Miva Merchant
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^heavytshirt.com [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.heavytshirt.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Currently I am able to type in a subsequent sub directory and get to a post – Like:
http://www.heavytshirt.com/blog/category/summershirts/
What can I do to make the blog home page come up when someone types in http://www.heavytshirt.com/blog
And not affect the main site at www.heavytshirt.com
I’m not looking into your apache configuration, since I believe it can easily be configured within WordPress.
Go into your WordPress administration panel, and move to
Settings / General Settings.Now change the values of
WordPress Address (URL)andSite Address (URL)accordingly. Read this WordPress Codex article for more details.Your issue is because you have set
Because /blog/ is a directory and the rules you have set are matching that as the directory index for /blog/ (because the directory actually exists).
You will have to combine the two Rewrite Directives to get the desired result (you don’t need RewriteEngine On in there twice).
Probably better that you start from scratch testing line by line to make sure you get the desired result.
I can’t test this, but you get the idea: