urls Access to the website with Processwire in a subfolder

[Elías Gómez]

I am creating a site with Processwire in the subfolder /pw. If I want to access the website at http://mydomain.com/ insted of at http://mydomain.com/pw/ withoud moving the instalation to the root folder, ¿what should I do? ¿Is it possible? I want to have my FTP folders organized 

Thanks!

[dotnetic]

You can do that with a .htacces and mod_rewrite. Don´t know exactly what you have to write, but google for "htaccess subfolder as root".

Maybe here is a solution: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/990392/htaccess-rewrite-to-redirect-root-url-to-subdirectory

[Doug G]

It seems to me I just had to set the rewrite_base in the distributed processwire .htaccess

[Francesco Bortolussi]

In your root directory find the .htaccess file.

Inside that file check for RewriteBase

It must be uncomment something like:

RewriteBase /pw

 

[Elías Gómez]

4 hours ago, Francesco Bortolussi said:

In your root directory find the .htaccess file.

Inside that file check for RewriteBase

It must be uncomment something like:

RewriteBase /pw

 

I have done that, and it does not work. I have the .htaccess in the /pw folder. I think maybe the file has to be in the root of the server, and not in the root of the PW installation.

I think I am going to move the installation to the root

[Francesco Bortolussi]

Ok, now I understand better.
You shoud use a rewrite rule in a .htaccess of the document root, you will lost web access to your Document Root  but your traffic will end in /pw

Something like:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /pw/$1

This rule should work but there are more way's to do it.

Another solution would be to create a subdomain / use a virtual host but I don't know if that is what you need.

The previous post about the RewriteBase is still valid, you still have to tell apahce that Proceswire is not in the main directory.
 

[BitPoet]

8 hours ago, Francesco Bortolussi said:

You shoud use a rewrite rule in a .htaccess of the document root, you will lost web access to your Document Root  but your traffic will end in /pw

Something like:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /pw/$1

 

There are possibilities to prevent that, e.g. by excluding all physically existing files and directories using a rewrite condition:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /pw/$1

You could also add specific subdirectories from being redirected, for example if you want to have another PW installation in a sub directory named "pw3", you'd add a condition before the rule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/pw3/