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I have been working this issue for several nights with no luck. I'm trying to Rewrite web requests using (.htaccess) from: cobweb.seas.gwu.edu/~mpnl to: cobweb.seas.gwu.edu/~mpnl/joomla

My latest (.htaccess) file is below:

# turn on Rewrite
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?cobweb.seas.gwu.edu/~mpnl$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/joomla/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /joomla/$1 [L]

RewriteRule ^(/)?$ joomla/index.php [L]
Sean Bright
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2 Answers2

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You can't match against the URI path with the %{HTTP_HOST} var, only the host. You'll need to either include the ~mpnl part as a rewrite base or as part of the request URI:

RewriteEngine on

# remove the "/~mpnl" from the end of this line, add a [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?cobweb.seas.gwu.edu$ [NC]
# add a "/~mpnl" to here
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/~mpnl/joomla/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# remove the leading slash before "joomla"
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ joomla/$1 [L]

# add a condition to this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/~mpnl/joomla/
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ joomla/index.php [L]
Jon Lin
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  • I tried your suggested (.htaccess) file without success- still getting the same 500 Internal Server error. I double-checked and mod_rewrite is enabled on the server.I used textedit to edit the file, ensured the file was saved for unix, and ansi encoding. Also tried various permissions. I should mentioned I saved the (.htaccess) file to the root of public_html. – Kirk Woellert Sep 02 '12 at 13:36
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To rewrite requests with a UserDir in the URI, you have to set a RewriteBase:

RewriteBase /~mpnl/
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