.htaccess redirect everything to "/public" except for "/blog" in subfolder

Question

i have an .htaccess file to redirect all users to my index.php in /public:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /public/([^\s?]*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,NE,R=302]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/index.php?$1 [L,QSA]

I want to add a blog to my site as a wordpress subfolder in /blog.

I tried adding:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/blog

as a condition, but my site keeps redirecting everything to /public. Any ideas?

Cheers.

Answer 1

Sounds pretty straight forward:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /public/([^\s?]*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,NE,R=302]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog/?
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/index.php?$1 [L,QSA]

I, personally, would always prefer that notation:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^/?public/(.*)$ /$1 [L,NE,R=302]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog/?
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /public/index.php?$1 [END,QSA]

If that does not work for you, then you will need to start debugging: start monitoring your http server's error log file and also the networking tab inside your browsers console.