.htaccess for site in sub-directory using Yii framework

Question

I have looked at several examples of htaccess configs for websites within sub-directories, and tried most of them without 100% success.

My setup is:

• using Yii framework
• htaccess at public_html/.htaccess
• site located inside public_html/mysite directory
• index handling all requests located at public_html/mysite/frontend/www/index.php

The status of the URLs:

• www.mysite.com works fine [ok]
• www.mysite.com/controller/action shows me the homepage [wrong]
• www.mysite.com/mysite/frontend/www/controller/action works fine [wrong, the item above should work instead]

My .htaccess at the moment looks like this:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php53s .php .html

Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
IndexIgnore */*

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mysite.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/mysite/frontend/www

RewriteRule ^(.*)?$ /mysite/frontend/www/index.php [L]

I have tried everything, but I have no idea why www.mysite.com/controller/action won't work :(

Any help would be really appreciated! Thanks!

Answer 1

I found the answer to this similar question to be helpful. Here is how my rewrite rules ended up:

#Forward all non-existent files/directories to Yii
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) subdir/index.php/$1 [QSA,L]

This takes all non-existent files/folders and sends them to the yii script with initial url appended. QSA appends any query string that may be present in the initial url.