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Rewrite Help Needed - to construct proper Apache .htaccess redirect rules

Asked by sitecreations in Apache Web Server, Web Servers, Regular Expressions

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I am hosting on bluehost, apache.

http://locations.domain.com points to my wordpressMU setup at
/public_html/locations  (using bluehosts' redirect control panel)
...a standard wordpress htaccess file is present in this directory.

http://www.domain.com is redirected to
/public_html/franchise (using the .htaccess file below) - works fine.

But I need to forward
http://www.domain.com/subdirname to
    http://locations.domain.com/subdirname

...and the TRICK here is that 'subdirname' string is the same string on initial and redirected URLs. In other words, we must be careful with the rules/expressions.

In which .htaccess file shall I create the redirects?
What should the redirects' syntax be?
How can I avoid the double-match problem?

I'm sure there is a regular expression that will catch one and let the other through, but I'm a bit lost where to put things.Start Free Trial 
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(THIS is the file that exists at the /public_html/ level to redirect my site into the /franchise/ folder.
 
# Bluehost.com
# .htaccess main domain to subfolder redirect
# Copy and paste the following code into the .htaccess file
# in the public_html folder of your hosting account
# make the changes to the file according to the instructions.
 
 
# Do not change this line.
 
RewriteEngine on
 
 
# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain.
 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?contoursexpress.ca$
 
 
# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain.
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/franchise/
 
# Don't change this line.
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 
# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain.
 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /franchise/$1
 
# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain again.
# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain
# followed by / then the main file for your site, index.php, index.html, etc.
 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?contoursexpress.ca$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ franchise/index.htm [L]
 
======== END OF FIRST .HTACCESS ===========
 
 
(FOllowing is the wordpress .htaccess file in the /locations/ folder)
 
 
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
 
#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]
 
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . - [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
 
<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>
 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^locations.contoursexpress.ca$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.locations.contoursexpress.ca$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "\/locations" [R=301,L]
 
 
#saveme
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^locations.contoursexpress.ca$ [OR]
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.locations.contoursexpress.ca$
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "\/locations" [R=301,L]
 
 
======== END OF SECOND.HTACCESS ===========
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