.htaccess file is not working in my Server

My site is located in https://itjmovies.com/milan/public/ and I want to rewrite the URL by .htaccess file. From https://itjmovies.com/milan/public/ To https://itjmovies.com/milan/ but it is not working. And also https://itjmovies.com/milan/public/auth/index.php?page=new To https://itjmovies.com/milan/public/auth/new/ but this is also not working.

I have kept my .httaccess file in /www/wwwroot/itjmovies.com/milan/.htaccess

My .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /public/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^public/auth/([a-zA-Z]+) /index.php?page=$1 [QSA,L]

Thank You 🙂

Answer

I’m not sure that your edit made your question any clearer. In your question description the stated rewrites (from/to) appear to be the wrong way round to what I think they are intended (and conflict with the order in which you have written the directives), but anyway…

My assumptions:

• /public should not be part of the visible URL. Although your site is located in the /milan/public directory. You are making requests of the form /milan/<anything>.
• You need to internally rewrite all requests from /milan/<anything> /to /milan/public/<anything>.
• Requests of the form /milan/public/auth/<something>/ (note the trailing slash, as stated in your example) should be internally rewritten to /milan/public/auth/index.php?page=<something>

I would have 2 .htaccess files. One in the /milan subdirectory that simply rewrites/forwards requests to the public subdirectory. And another .htaccess file in /milan/public that handles rewrites that are specific to your application.

For example:

# /milan/.htaccess

RewriteEngine On

# Forward all requests to the "public" subdirectory
RewriteRule (.*) public/$1 [L]

# /milan/public/.htaccess

RewriteEngine On

# Rewrite "auth/<something>/" to "auth/index.php?page=<something>"
RewriteRule ^auth/([^/]+)/$ auth/index.php?page=$1 [QSA,L]

The .htaccess file at /milan/public/.htaccess also serves to prevent a rewrite loop when requests are rewritten to the public subdirectory by the .htaccess file in the parent directory. This is because mod_rewrite directives are not inherited by default.

The QSA flag is only required if you are expecting query strings on the original request.

The RewriteRule pattern (1st argument) matches the URL-path relative to the directory that contains the .htaccess file.

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RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /public/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^public/auth/([a-zA-Z]+) /index.php?page=$1 [QSA,L]

A few notes on your attempt – which is close, but has a few crictical errors:

• The URL-path matched by the RewriteRule pattern does not start with a slash (when used in .htaccess), so the regex ^/(.*)$ will never match.
• The first rule is also an external redirect (ie. exposes the /public subdirectory) which doesn’t seem right. Do you really want /public in the visible URL – if so then you should be linking directly to the /public subdirectory, not relying on a redirect?
• The first rule is redirecting to /public in the document root, not /milan/public.
• Once corrected, the first rule will also result in a rewrite-loop (500 Internal Server Error) as it will repeatedly rewrite the request… public/public/public/<something> etc.
• The second rule is also rewriting to /index.php in the document root, not /milan/public/auth/index.php.