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hi. Firstly, I hope this is in the right place. Please move it if necessary.

I have a EE (v.1.6.6), which I’ve hardly touched for months. I set it u a year ago and it all works fine.

I cant remember how I got it to remove the index.php from the URL, I have a feeling it was a plugin by Leevi. Anyway, it works fine and in my htaccess, I have this bit of code

# Remove index.php
# Uses the "include method"
# <a href="http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Remove_index.php_From_URLs/#Include_List_Method">http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Remove_index.php_From_URLs/#Include_List_Method</a>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5})$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(site|search|temp|blog|export|includes|feeds|about|contact|twittertest|portfolio|game||members|P[0-9]{2,8}) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

My issue is that I setup a subdomain - test.whatever.com, and the urls don’t work because, by the looks of things, this htaccess is breaking it.

How can I get around this? Can I change the htaccess file here? Or do I need a seperate htaccess on the subdomain?

Thanks

Tom

Hi Tom,

It probably depends on how subdomains are managed in your hosting environment. Please contact your hosting support and ask them whether subdomains would be affected by .htaccess files in your webroot. Is your subdomain also an EE site that is being run from the main system directory?

Cheers

Greg

Hi thanks for that.

the subdomain is actually a wordpress site. I’ll get in touch with the hosting support.

If I get a working response, I’ll post back.

Tom

Great. Let us know how you get on.

Cool. My hosts flicked some switches and all I had to do was put a blank .htaccess file on my subdomain.

Initially I had to directly go sub.mydomain.com/wp-admin/index.php - but once I was in there, I updated the permalink settings and it works a treat.

Glad things are working again. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.