Install Drupal in a subdirectory, but access it as root
Submitted by radu on March 9, 2010 - 11:31pm
I wanted to install Drupal in a subdirectory, for instance ~/public_html/drupal, and still access it as root.
The theory is simple: put Drupal in a subdirectory then add a .htaccess file in the root directory that redirects non existing URL's to '/drupal'. But in practice it proves to be trickier than I thought.
So, here is the code for the .htaccess file:
Options -Indexes Options +FollowSymLinks <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On # skip processing the drupal files RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/drupal%{REQUEST_URI} -f RewriteRule .* drupal/$0 [L] # process drupal urls RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^kenjiru\.ro|www\.kenjiru\.ro$ [NC] RewriteRule ^$ drupal/ [L] # the actual redirect RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^kenjiru\.ro|www\.kenjiru\.ro$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ drupal/$1 [L] </IfModule>
I specified the domain because I'm having other addon domains hosted on the same document root.
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