John Davidson

Message:

I have set up a mod_rewrite in a sub-directory (NOT root directory) using .htaccess file, code as follows:

#Enable the mod_rewrite

RewriteEngine On



#Rewrite condition as follows, if the URL matches a read directory, file or link then don't do the rewrite.

ReweiteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

ReweiteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

ReweiteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l



#The Rewrite rule is as follows:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]

The plan is if the user enters a wrong URL a 404 error to be returned. I have used the following PHP code that worked with me perfectly in a PHP file located in the root directory.

http_response_code(404);

include("404.php");

die();  

However, the result is not expected, the page appears as follows:

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I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the .htaccess, but I have put everything that I thought is related.

Please note that both pages either the one that calls 404.php and the latter has the charset=UTF-8

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My Answer:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /subdirectory/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /subdirectory/index.php [L]