.htaccess / url rewrite issues

Question

Using CakePHP. The website is www.villapalmeras.co.uk. When I view the root my links appear correctly (ie http://www.villapalmeras.co.uk/public/events). When I navigate to any other page, the same link then shows as http://www.villapalmeras.co.uk/websites/123reg/LinuxPackage25/jo/rd/an/jordanwallwork.co.uk/public_html/domains/villalaspalmeras/public/events

I'm using a 123-reg hosting package, and have mapped the villapalmeras.co.uk domain to the location domains/villapalmeras (the root of this is my website at jordanwallwork.co.uk). Tried editing .htaccesses files with no success.

My .htaccess files are:

/domains/villapalmeras/.htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
   RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

/domains/villapalmeras/app/.htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L]
</IfModule>

/domains/villapalmeras/app/webroot/.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

index.php:

define('APP_DIR', 'app');
define('DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
define('ROOT', dirname(__FILE__));
define('WEBROOT_DIR', 'webroot');
define('WWW_ROOT', ROOT . DS . APP_DIR . DS . WEBROOT_DIR . DS);

if (!defined('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH')) {
    define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', ROOT . DS . 'lib');
}

require APP_DIR . DS . WEBROOT_DIR . DS . 'index.php';

Answer 1

Turns out the answer was really simple! All I needed to do was add RewriteBase / to all of the .htaccess files, not just the root, and then it worked perfectly

Answer 2

Just to clarify my comment above, the code you want to modify might be in your index.php:

The code you are looking for:

/**
 * The full path to the directory which holds "app", WITHOUT a trailing DS.
 *
 */
    if (!defined('ROOT')) {
        define('ROOT', dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__))));
    }
/**
 * The actual directory name for the "app".
 *
 */
    if (!defined('APP_DIR')) {
        define('APP_DIR', basename(dirname(dirname(__FILE__))));
    }
/**
 * The absolute path to the "cake" directory, WITHOUT a trailing DS.
 *
 */
    if (!defined('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH')) {
        define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', ROOT);
    }

It should be changed to something more like:

/**
 * The full path to the directory which holds "app", WITHOUT a trailing DS.
 *
 */
    if (!defined('ROOT')) {
        define('ROOT', DS . 'home' . DS . 'username');
    }
/**
 * The actual directory name for the "app".
 *
 */
    if (!defined('APP_DIR')) {
        define('APP_DIR', 'domain.com');
    }
/**
 * The absolute path to the "cake" directory, WITHOUT a trailing DS.
 *
 */
    if (!defined('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH')) {
        define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', 'home' . DS . 'username');
    }

Depending of course on the structure of your hosts directories.

Answer 3

You have to change each .htaccess and doesn't need to change in index.php or other files.

/domains/villapalmeras/.htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
   RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

/domains/villapalmeras/app/.htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /app/
    RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L]
</IfModule>

/domains/villapalmeras/app/webroot/.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /app/webroot/
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>