Issue with .htaccess and rewrite - any ideas

[douglerner]

My primary domain is elliptics.com. For now, I want URLs to http://www.elliptics.com and http://elliptics.com to get automatically sent to my Drupal instance at http://www.elliptics.com/drupal.

So, I modified the root level .htaccess file as follows:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mail(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{REQUEST_URI}/webmail [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^elliptics.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.elliptics.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.elliptics.com/drupal [R=301,L]

That works as far as the root level elliptics.com URLs go, but some other URLs that should not get sent to Drupal are getting sent there.

For example, while http://elliptics.com/elgg correctly goes to the elgg instance, http://elliptics.com/gallery and http://elliptics.com/moodle don't go to those folders and instead get sent to the drupal folder.

Anybody have any idea why?

Thanks!

doug

[douglerner]

I guess nobody else has run into this kind of problem?

doug

[cordoba11]

Originally Posted by douglerner

My primary domain is elliptics.com. For now, I want URLs to http://www.elliptics.com and http://elliptics.com to get automatically sent to my Drupal instance at http://www.elliptics.com/drupal.

So, I modified the root level .htaccess file as follows:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mail(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{REQUEST_URI}/webmail [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^elliptics.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.elliptics.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.elliptics.com/drupal [R=301,L]

That works as far as the root level elliptics.com URLs go, but some other URLs that should not get sent to Drupal are getting sent there.

For example, while http://elliptics.com/elgg correctly goes to the elgg instance, http://elliptics.com/gallery and http://elliptics.com/moodle don't go to those folders and instead get sent to the drupal folder.

Anybody have any idea why?

Thanks!

doug

hmmm
why dont you just move drupal to your main directory??
did you install from fantastico??
do a backup of the db and do a reinstall than restore backup
in fantastico instead of filling the info where it ask you for the file location just leave empty and it will install in public_html

[douglerner]

Thanks for your reply.

I did install from cPanel.

I have lots of other things in the main directory too, not to mention various other domain folders. So I wanted to keep this in the drupal folder.

It would be way way way too cluttered and confusing with everything if I put all the drupal contents directly at the top level.

That rewrite set should work, right? Or do I have a mistake in syntax?

Thanks,

doug

[promni]

You could just setup a redirect?

[douglerner]

Thanks for your note. I actually got the rewrite rule to work. I don't know why my original version, above, didn't work, but this one does:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.elliptics\.com\/drupal" [R=302,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.\elliptics\.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.elliptics\.com\/drupal" [R=302,L]

doug