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Hi all,

For my company we have expression engine working beautifully for our main site, let’s call it:

http://www.something.com

We installed expression engine in the /expressionengine subdirectory and thus to display the EE generated component of our home page, we have the RewriteRule within the .htaccess folder as such:

RewriteRule ^$ /expressionengine/index.php/home/$1 [L]

This is great, but we are expanding to other countries, and while setting environment variables we can achieve the german version of the homepage at:

“www.something.de” by using the same RewriteRule, this doesn’t work if I want to display the german version of the home page in a subdirectory: http://www.something.com/de/

using:

RewriteRule ^de/$ /expressionengine/index.php/home/$1 [L]

That just redirects me to “www.something.com” and shows me the US version of the homepage, where the intended effect should be to show me the Germany home page at “www.something.com/de/”.

Given all of this, can a Expression Engine template/structure be configured to work on both the root directory and subdirectory?  Would I need to purchase the Multiple Site Manager to achieve this even though the “new site” is within a subdirectory?

Thanks in advance!

Welcome to the forums.

I think I’d bite the bullet on this one and relocate the EE install in the root, that will make it a whole lot easier for adding new MSM sites and save you a lot of hassle with .htaccess.