Using mod_rewrite to redirect subdirectory to webroot with CakePHP app

Question

Hey all, I have the following setup in my webroot:

/issues
    (Trac install)
/myapp
    (Cake install)

What I want to happen is that when I go to http://example.com/, it will pull up the cake app - basically, redirecting ^(.*) to myapp/$1 (but invisibly - the URL for users/login is http://example.com/users/login). I have an exception for /issues/, which works fine - when I go to /issues/, it pulls up Trac. But my Cake app keeps redirecting things to http://example.com/myapp/users/login, which I think is breaking my sessions, and in any case is not desirable. I've tried to force such URLs back to the root using something like

RewriteRule ^myapp/(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond  $1  !^(myapp|issues)/.*$
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$ myapp/$1

...but to no avail. I also have RewriteBase / in all of my CakePHP .htaccess files.

Any ideas as to how I can actually get this to do what I want it to?

benjamin benjamin · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-11T04:40:06

it looks that this link could help you. After that you should have a cleaner separation, in my opinion.

Using mod_rewrite to redirect subdirectory to webroot with CakePHP app

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