I have .htaccess files at multiple levels of a directory heirarchy, each with RewriteRules in them. However, when arequest is made for a file in a subdirectory, only the rules in the most deeply nested .htaccess file (up to the level of the requested file) are ever processed. Even having only a single line with "RewriteEngine On" is a subdirectory is enough to "disable" all rewrites defined in higher directories. This happens both for apache and litespeed httpd.
I had expected (and can't find any information otherwise) that all the RewriteRules would be combined into a single ruleset (presumably with deeper levels being processed last). However this doesn't seem to be happening.
Quite confused 🙂 What am I not understanding?
Thanks,
Mike.
Best Answer
Have you set
RewriteOptions Inherit
in each.htaccess
?http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriteoptions