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Hey guys

I’ve run into a very annoying issu with a MSM site, which must relate to the htaccess file removing index.php from the URL.

The setup

domain1.com - This is the main site.
domain1.com/domain2 - This is the new MSM site
domain2.domain1.com - This points to domain1.com, where a htaccess file redirects to /domain2

The problem

domain1.com - OK
domain1.com/index.php - OK
domain1.com/url-title - OK
domain1.com/index.php/url-title - OK

domain1.com/domain2 - OK
domain1.com/domain2/index.php - OK
domain1.com/domain2/url-title - Domain1 404 Error
domain1.com/domain2/index.php/url-title - OK

domain2.domain1.com - OK
domain2.domain1.com/index.php - Domain2 404 ERROR
domain2.domain1.com/url-title - OK
domain2.domain1.com/index.php/url-title - Domain2 404 ERROR

There’s clearly a problem with the index.php-removal. Removing it does indeed work, but the reason why this is a problem, is because I’m trying to implement Biber Ltd’s Multi Language Extension, which won’t work. I believe this problem is related to the problem with index.php removal.

The .htaccess

In domain1.com:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php/home/404
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On
        
        Options +FollowSymlinks
        RewriteBase /
 
        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain2.domain1.com
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !domain2/
     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ domain2/$1 [L] 

        RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

In domain2 I have tried the same htaccess as in domain1, both with and without the http-rewrite rule as well as with and without the trailing “index.php?” questionmark - as well as other combinations, but I simply can’t get it to work!

I’m way past going mad here… :/

I have discovered that this issue must be related to the redirection.
When using the redirect above, index.php under domain2.domain1.com is for some odd reason being treated by EE as the first segment in the URI.

Also, even after removing the htaccess code to remove index.php from the URL, the site continues to work without index.php.

I have made a tech support post about this issue here: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/212831/

Well, things seem to have been sorted out.

The solution was to abandon ship and start from scratch with a server setup, essentially redoing the original setup where domain2.com pointed to domain1.com, which in turn used a htaccess to redirect to domain1.com/domain2.
Instead we convinced the server host to go for the following setup, which doesn’t require the extra htaccess redirect:

Domain1 points to:
/home/username/public_html/ - This is where the system folder lives

Domain2 points directly to:
/home/username/public_html/domain2

Domain1 uses .htaccess to remove index.php and set our 404 page, but nothing else. Domain2 has no .htaccess.
For the Biber Ltd multi language setup, we have one language folder for each language under each site, with their own index.php and additional .htaccess to remove before mentioned index.php from URL’s.

This seems to have solved all the issues we were experiencing, which I guess occurred due to a combination of the htaccess redirect, removing index.php from both sites, and also - as we discovered, faulty group permission settings for one of the language folders.

- Moderator, go ahead and close this one up if you like!