.htaccess file mod_rewrite redirecting to parent directory instead of sub-directory when file names are same in both directories

Question

I am accessing the root directory via domain-A.com and a sub-directory via domain-B.com

All redirects are working properly for domain-B.com except those that are having same names for instance if root directory contains a file called abc.html and subdirectory also contains the file abc.html in that case accessing domain-B.com/abc.html shows the contents of domain-A.com/abc.html but the url remains the same i.e. domain-B.com/abc.html

I would like to know how can this be resolved. I am using Ubuntu and these are the settings that I have made for various file

I have already enabled mod_rewrite using sudo a2enmod rewrite

.htaccess - path /var/www/html

# Do not change this line.
RewriteEngine on

# Change domain.com to be your primary main domain. http://domain-b.com/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain-b.com$

# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you want to redirect request to.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/domain-b/

# Don't change this line.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you want to use for your primary domain.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /domain-b/$1 [L]

# Change domain.com to be your primary domain again.
# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your primary domain
# followed by / then the main file for your site, index.php, index.html, etc.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain-b.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ domain-b/index.html [L]

httpd.conf - Path /etc/apache2/conf-available

<Directory /var/www/html>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

000-default.conf - Path /etc/apache2/sites-available

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html


    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

     <Directory /var/www/html>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

000-default.conf - Path /etc/apache2/sites-enabled

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html


    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

     <Directory /var/www/html>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

anubhava anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-21T17:06:29

Issue is with these 2 conditions:

# Don't change this line.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

Which means if a file or directory exists in site root dir then don't rewrite to sub-directory.

Just change your rule to this:

RewriteEngine on

# Change domain.com to be your primary domain again.
# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your primary domain
# followed by / then the main file for your site, index.php, index.html, etc.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain-b\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?$ domain-b/index.html [L]

# Change domain.com to be your primary main domain. http://domain-b.com/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain-b\.com$ [NC]
# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you want to redirect request to.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/domain-b/ [NC]
# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you want to use for your primary domain.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /domain-b/$1 [L]

.htaccess file mod_rewrite redirecting to parent directory instead of sub-directory when file names are same in both directories

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