htaccess on multidomain setup: other domains don't work - apache

Question

I have a multidomain setup that looks like this on my server … this is a model of the structure:
.htaccess
***my-website
.htaccess
index.php
projects.php
jobs.php
some-project.php
another-project.php
some-job.php
another-job.php***
other-domain
other-domain
other-domain
I have two goals:
1.) The root .htaccess file should just make sure, that my main-domain which is /my-website is run/executed automatically when entering www.my-website.com. Due to the fact that I have a multidomain ftp-server I need do specify that. That is working already.
2.) In my sub-directory /my-website I need some different rules, especially regarding better url design and the omittance of .php extension.
So in /my-website I want to neglect all .php suffixes.
And I want to "fake" directories like /jobs /projects which are actually not directories but php-files themselves.
This is what I have so far thanks to #anubhava in this thread.
DocumentRoot/.htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^projects/(.+?\.php)$ /$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^jobs/(.+?\.php)$ /$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^(downloads/.+)/?$ assets/$1 [L,NC]
# add .php extension
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1\.php -f [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ $1.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/my-website/
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/my-website%{REQUEST_URI} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/my-website%{REQUEST_URI} -d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /my-website/$1 [L]
/my-website/.htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /my-website/
# add .php extension
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/my-website/$1\.php -f [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ $1.php [L]
However I have the problem now when using this, that in my-website the links without a trailing .php wont work. I want my links to work like /projects but run/exectute /projects.php in my-website. However this doesn't work at the moment, i get a 404.
I also want /projects/some-project to run/execute /some-project.php (where the projects directory doesn't actually exist) which doesn't work either, also 404.
So, to sum it up.
All my domains work now! So my multidomain-setup is save and handeld.
However inside /my-website I want all links to work without trailing .php and with this "faked" directories
So right now this works …
www.my-website.com // works
www.other-domain.com // works
www.my-website.com/projects // doesn't work without trailing .php
www.my-website.com/projects.php // works (runs projects.php)
www.my-website.com/projects/some-project // doesn't work (should run some-project.php)
www.my-website.com/projects/some-project.php // works (runs some-project.php)

Answer 1

Have root .htaccess like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
## COMMENT out these 2 rules
# RewriteRule ^projects/(.+?\.php)$ /$1 [L,NC]
# RewriteRule ^jobs/(.+?\.php)$ /$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^(downloads/.+)/?$ assets/$1 [L,NC]
# add .php extension
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/my-website/$1\.php -f [NC]
RewriteRule ^(?:[^/]+/)?([^/]+)/?$ my-website/$1.php [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?my-website\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/my-website/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ my-website/$1 [L]
# add .php extension 2
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1\.php -f [NC]
RewriteRule ^(?:[^/]+/)?([^/]+)/?$ $1.php [L]
/my-website/.htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /my-website/
# add .php extension
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/my-website/$1\.php -f [NC]
RewriteRule ^(?:[^/]+/)?([^/]+)/?$ $1.php [L]

Answer 2

DocumentRoot/.htaccess:
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^projects/(.+?\.php)$ /$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^jobs/(.+?\.php)$ /$1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^(downloads/.+)/?$ assets/$1 [L,NC]
# add .php extension for REQUEST_FILENAME existing in /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1\.php -f [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ $1.php [L]
# Check if REQUEST_URI is existing as file or directory in /my-website
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/my-website/
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/my-website%{REQUEST_URI} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/my-website%{REQUEST_URI} -d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /my-website/$1 [L]
# Check if REQUEST_URI is existing as file.php in /my-website
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/my-website/
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/my-website%{REQUEST_URI}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /my-website/$1 [L]
/my-website/.htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /my-website/
# To internally forward /dir/foo to /dir/foo.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ $1.php [L]