rewrite woes

I have a site (call it thesite.com) that I want always accessed as
www.thesite.com, so I have been using the following rule:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thesite\.com [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.thesite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

So far so good. I also want to be able to use search engine friendly (SEF)
urls with the CMS on the site, so I just added.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

BUT... I also have test installations of the CMS in subdirectories (e.g.
www.thesite.com/turnip, www.thesite.com/parsnip, ...)

Now since adding the SEF stuff, when I try to click onto a link in turnip,
it takes me to the main site in the root directory.

So I tried adding a new .htaccess file in the turnip directory thus:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thesite\.com/turnip [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.thesite.com/turnip/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

Which fixes the problem of being sent back to the root site, but it is also
losing the www off of the front of the urls if they are typed in the
browser. So when I enter www.thesite.com/turnip, is is ending up with
thesite.com/turnip in the browser.

Can anyone point me to what I need to do to:
1) enable my SEF urls
2) ensure all addresses in the browser have www. at the front
3) be able to access all the test installations in their subdirectories as
well as the main site in the root

I hope this is clear.

TIA
Regards
Paul Lautman

Paul Lautman wrote:
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thesite\.com/turnip [nc]

The HTTP_HOST does not contain parts of the URL-path.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thesite\.com

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Robert

Robert Ionescu wrote:
> Paul Lautman wrote:
>> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thesite\.com/turnip [nc]
>
> The HTTP_HOST does not contain parts of the URL-path.
>
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thesite\.com

I didn't mention that I had only tried adding the /turnip in the RewriteCond
because it was not working without it.
But I discovered that the RewriteEngine On line was missing from the turnip
..htaccess. Here is what I have:

In root:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thesite\.com [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.thesite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

In /turnip:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thesite\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.thesite.com/turnip/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

It is working, but is there any way over this without having to have a
dedicated .htaccess file in each subdirectory?

TIA
Regards
Paul

Paul Lautman wrote:
> It is working, but is there any way over this without having to have a
> dedicated .htaccess file in each subdirectory?

It depends upon what you'd like to achieve. With your /turnip/.htaccess,
you're rewriting such requests to /turnip/index.php and not to /index.php

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Robert