Title: WordPress in a subfolder – mod_rewrite?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress in a subfolder – mod_rewrite?

 *  [sebastianpatten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sebastianpatten/)
 * (@sebastianpatten)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-in-a-subfolder-mod_rewrite/)
 * Hello everyone!
 * **QUESTION BACKGROUND:**
    I’m trying to get wordpress working in a subfolder 
   on a website. I want to thoroughly test it before it goes live. I don’t want 
   to interfere with the currently running website.
 * **ACTIONS TAKEN:**
    I’ve created a new folder off root called wordpress, and 
   thrown my wordpress files in here. I have logged into the General settings and
   changed the WordPress address (URL) and site address to [http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress](http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress).
 * Now when I go to preview, say the faq page, I see the url looks correct i.e. 
   [http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/faq](http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/faq)
   however it comes up with a 404.
 * Now after a quick bit of reading – i get the impression i can modify the .htaccess
   file and use mod_rewrite to funnel all requests to wherever i want.
 * I created a file called test.php which is a copy of index.php from the wordpress
   directory. (I called it test.php so it won’t interfere with the current live 
   sites index.php).
 * **QUESTION:**
    My thoughts on how to solve the situation is to use mod_rewrite
   to funnel all requests going to the /wordpress directory back to the test.php
   file.
 * Does that sound about right?
 * If so how would I modify my mod_rewrite to do this? I only want requests going
   to [http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/xxxxx](http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/xxxxx)
   to be picked up and re-written.
 * My attempt so far. Do I need to add a condition of the wordpress folder somewhere?
 * <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^test\.php
   $ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-
   d RewriteRule . /test.php [L] </IfModule>
 * Many thanks!

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 *  [Curtiss Grymala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgrymala/)
 * (@cgrymala)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-in-a-subfolder-mod_rewrite/#post-1884789)
 * You should not be using another file to try to recreate what WordPress does. 
   The various PHP file include and require statements will fail all over the place,
   rendering the site useless.
 * Instead, you need to remove any WordPress information from the .htaccess in the
   root of your website and then create a brand new .htaccess file in your wordpress
   subdirectory (if file permissions are set up correctly and you can access your
   WordPress admin area, you can do this by simply visiting the Permalinks page 
   under the Settings menu – the .htaccess folder is recreated each time you visit
   that page).
 * If it still doesn’t work, check the .htaccess file in your wordpress subdirectory
   and make sure that the RewriteBase is set to /wordpress/ instead of just /.
 *  Thread Starter [sebastianpatten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sebastianpatten/)
 * (@sebastianpatten)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-in-a-subfolder-mod_rewrite/#post-1884795)
 * Epic – this fixed it.
 * Thanks a lot!

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 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [mod_rewrite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mod_rewrite/)
 * [subfolder](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subfolder/)

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 * Last reply from: [sebastianpatten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sebastianpatten/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-in-a-subfolder-mod_rewrite/#post-1884795)
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