I'm struggling to get this .htaccess rewrite working correctly:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /subdir/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) old/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
I have a directory structure like this:
/subdir/
.htaccess
/old/
/wp/
I want all requests to http://myserver.com/subdir/ to be rewritten to http://myserver.com/subdir/old/, expect those pointing to the /wp/ directory. The .htaccess above works fine when a file or directory is specified (e.g. http://myserver.com/subdir/index.html) but when only the /subdir/ is present it gives a 403 response (I'm assuming the 403 is because I have directory listing disabled).
Many thanks to anyone who can point me in the right direction with this.
Best Answer
This seemed to do the trick, even if I don't know why exactly!