HTACCESS - Allow access to folders - apache

Question

This is my current htaccess.
Site
|.htaccess
|--/folder-1
|--/folder-2
Now my root htaccess is as follows:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^site.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^site.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ /public/ [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/
RewriteRule ^(.*) /public/$1 [L]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
I want users to access all files and folders inside folder 1 and folder 2. How that can be done?

Answer 1

Several changes: do your domain redirect first (note the subtle changes);
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+) [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://%1/$0 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^site\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(?!(?:folder-1|folder-2)(?:$|/)|public/(?:index\.php)?$).* public/$0 [L]
This incorporates the folders you're excluding from rewriting into the main rule, so should be more efficient. It looks ugly since it starts with a negative look-ahead assertion (?! and the rest of the groups begin with (?: so they are non-capturing.
Do you really need a single domain? If so, it should be checked on all requests. If not, drop the first RewriteCond of the second RewriteRule.
if your default document is not index.php, change it in the negative look-ahead assertion of the second RewriteRule.