.htaccess RewriteOptions Inherit is not inheriting

Question

I've been trying inerhiting my rules with RewriteOptions Inerhit, because for some reason rules are not inerhited by default.You might want to know that I'm on a LiteSpeed server.

The IP XXX.XX.XX.XX points to a subdomain which is located in ~/public_html/dir/sub/

This .htaccess is located in ~/public_html/:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions Inherit

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^XXX.XX.XX.XX$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com [R=301,L]

In ~/public_html/dir/ I have this .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions Inherit

And in ~/public_html/dir/sub/ the .htaccess also looks like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions Inherit

In this .htaccess there's also some WordPress code below which I also tried to remove but nothing changed.

I also tried to use RewriteOptions Inherit Before but rules from ~/public_html/ are not applied. So if I go to the IP I'm not redirected.

Anyone faced such a problem before and got any tips for me what I cloud try? I really did a lot of search but couldn't figure out what's wrong.

Answer 1

I found out that inherited (in root folder) rules are parsed with the subdirectory context

/.htaccess
RewriteRule melon http://www.google.com [R,L]
RewriteRule /services/bar http://www.yahoo.com [R,L]

/services/.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions Inherit
deny from all

http://mydomin.com/services/bar => 403
http://mydomin.com/services/melon => google.com !!!

Maybe try with a more loose RewriteRule (.*)

Also, as RewriteRule context is lost, try using RewriteCond capture pattern if you need conditionnal rewrite

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/services/.*)
RewriteRule (.*) http://elsewhere.com/%1 
#in place of a basic RewriteRule /services/(.*) http://elsewhere.com/$1