Using .htaccess to rewrite to WordPress subdirectory?

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As opposed to many questions here in StackOverflow, I’m looking for something a little different. I have a WordPress install in a subfolder of my domain called “blog”. The main part of the website is a Magento website. I’m looking to take any instance where “blog” is part of the URI, and make sure it’s untouched by the myriad of other RewriteRules in Apache.

As a few examples:

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http://www.example.com/blog/wp-admin/

http://www.example.com/blog/

http://www.example.com/blog/save-money-groceries-without-coupons/

…should all direct to the WordPress site found under /blog/

http://www.example.com/

http://www.example.com/plumbing/faucets.html

http://www.example.com/about/family-history.html

…should all direct to the Magento site that is currently found under the root directory

What is the best practice in writing the .htaccess file to achieve this result?

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  1. To redirect http://www.example.com/blog/wp-admin/ to http://www.blog.example.com/wp-admin/ you can add the following to the .htaccess file

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)$ http://www.blog.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

  2. I’m not an expert on setting up Apache servers but I think you want your WordPress install in a completely different folder to Magento and then use Alias in your .conf file. You can read about the Alias directive here.

    For example in my Apache .conf files I have

    Alias /blog/ "/full/path/to/wordpress/htdocs/"

    This way the folder /full/path/to/wordpress/htdocs/ has its own .htaccess and its own index.php – which is what you are going to want for running WordPress without jumping through hoops.

    Remember to restart Apache if you update the .conf file.