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Hey guys

I’m having some trouble with htaccess-settings for a MSM, multi-language site that’s been moved from a development site to a live server.

The server setup looks like this

site1/index.php <- This is the main site
site1/site2/index.php <- This is the new site
site1/site2/en/index.php <- This is the language folder for the new site

Now, I’m forced to redirect site2.com using htaccess from site1 to site2. For this I’m using the following htaccess-file in site1:

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

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} site2.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !site2/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ site2/$1 [L]

However, as soon as I try to access a subfolder, such as site1/site2/en/, this is being treated as an EE segment (by site2) and renders my EE 404 page.

Would appreciate some help by any htaccess-guru out there!

/André

Well, I’ve made some progress. I’ve tested the following code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site2.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/site2/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /popomax/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site2.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ site2/index.php [L]

This seems to handle the basic redirect properly, and also works for other sub folders - except if the sub folder has the same name as a sub folder in the site root.

I.e. the following setup is giving me a massive htaccess headache:

/public_html/subfolder/
/public_html/site2/subfolder/

If I try to access http://www.site2.com/subfolder/ this renders /public_html/subfolder/ and not /public_html/site2/subfolder/

Anyone know a way to handle this kind of redirect?

Problem solved. This turned out to be a hosting setup issue!

Pushloop, I am probably encountering the same problem. What hosting setup changes did you make?