Does not work when WP installed in subfolder / subdirectory

Hi,

in v3.x , there is option to set .htaccess path , have you tried that ?

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Best regards,

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by qtwrk.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by qtwrk.

No, I have not. I will investigate and report back.

I received a copy of your unedited post, qtwrk, in which you showed a variety of scenarios:

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But it looks like you have not quite understood, because in each case you have the backend and frontends in the same folder.

What typically happens is that there will be one htaccess in the wordpress subfolder, and another one in the root folder (public_html)

So:
home/example/public_html/.htaccess
home/example/public_html/wordpress/.htaccess

The error, which is still occurring with the latest release of your plugin, is that it only updates the htaccess in the wordpress folder. It cannot work out, by itself, to update the root htaccess.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by mazunga.

Hi,

Yes, I misunderstand in the first place, then I edit the my post

home/example/public_html/.htaccess
home/example/public_html/wordpress/.htaccess

this set up still not working ?

Best regards,

I will test and update, thank you.

I mean

for example your set up is :

/ empty , only .htaccess to redirect/rewrite to /wordpress/ , where all the WP files are stored

then set frontend .htaccess to /.htaccess, and backend .htaccess to /wordpress/.htaccess

and see how it goes.

When I try to save the new paths I get error

403
Forbidden
Access to this resource on the server is denied!

check mod_security , probably denied request due to sensitive word like .htaccess in it

Disabled ModSecurity, but I still get 403 error.

Could this be the reason:
https://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/403-forbidden-error-wordpress-htaccess/

I don’t know your server set up , but you could try that , though I think that is not the reason.

you may need to check server log for that 403

I do not have access to the server’s log. I will have to ask the host.

I was able to edit the .htaccess file from the “Tools” tab to insert “Options +FollowSymLinks” at the top, and successfully saved it. However, when I tried to edit the path again, the 403 error happened again.

Hi,

server log should tell the reason for 403 , please contact your hosting provider

Best regards,

Without seeing the log (host away, weekend), I was looking at this page
https://www.litespeedtech.com/support/wiki/doku.php/litespeed_wiki:config:understanding_403

It mentions that the presence of a rewriterule can cause a 403. I do have such a rule:

### marker CACHE RESOURCE start ###
RewriteRule cms/wp-content/.*/[^/]*(responsive|css|js|dynamic|loader|fonts)\.php - [E=cache-control:max-age=3600]
### marker CACHE RESOURCE end ###

not exactly , in that example

RewriteCond (SOMECONDITION)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ – [F,L]

that [F] stands for forbid , so gives 403 , but you don’t have F flag in your rule.

I see that now. I will have to ask the host for help