Invisibly rewriting root to subdirectory using mod_rewrite (ajaxplorer)

Question

I've been looking on various sites reading mod_rewrite examples for a few hours, and have used it many times before successfully... but I'm trying something new with it now and can't for the life of me get it working!

I'm using a PHP file manager tool called AjaXplorer, I have it in a subdirectory on the root of my server /ajaxplorer-core-4.0.4. When I go to the root of my site http://domain.com/ I want it to invisibly redirect to the /ajaxplorer-core-4.0.4 folder (but still show the root domain in the address bar).

I still want to be able to access the other files/directories on the root as normal just typing in the path.

I assume this is possible? Seems relatively simple but I just can't get it working.

AjaXplorer seems to load js files and images etc from /ajaxplorer-core-4.0.4/plugins, I have a feeling that's where it's tripping me up.

Any pointers would be massively appreciated! Thanks

Answer 1

Found it on another answer luckily :)

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site.com$ 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdir/ 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdir/$1 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site.com$ 
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ subdir/index.php [L]

Answer 2

• Here's the wiki of serverfault.com
• The howto's htaccess official guide
• The official mod_rewrite guide

And if that's not enough:

Two hints:

If you're not in a hosted environment (= if it's your own server and you can modify the virtual hosts, not only the .htaccess files), try to use the RewriteLog directive: it helps you to track down such problems:

# Trace:
# (!) file gets big quickly, remove in prod environments:
RewriteLog "/web/logs/mywebsite.rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteEngine On

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My favorite tool to check for regexp:

http://www.quanetic.com/Regex (don't forget to choose ereg(POSIX) instead of preg(PCRE)!)