So I have a wordpress website installed in the root of my domain and it is up and running fine. I want to install a shopping cart in a subfolder but it’s giving me trouble. I have a folder called “magento”. In that folder is a filed called downloader.php and index.php.
When I try to access the file, WordPress was giving me a 404 error like it was thinking I meant it to look for a WP article.
I tried a different .htaccess file which changed it to a standard 500 error now.
I’ve googled for this and found tons of people with the same problem, but haven’t found a solution that works. I also checked the permissions and the folder is 777 and I changed the files to 777 as well but it still doesn’t work.
The .htaccess file in the root (public_html) file simply shows
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wp/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wp/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
I don’t know anything about configuring .htaccess files but if anyone has any suggestions on how I can get this to work, that’d be great.
Thanks!!
You can install an empty .htaccess file in the
magentosubdirectory. This overrides the WordPress .htaccess file and allows to access the files in that directory.Never change file permissions to
777. This is dangerous, because it allows anybody to modify your files.