Not able to access Subfolders | Php framework - php

Question

I am editing a site that is made using some framework on PHP doesn't show which.
All the public files like CSS,JS are inside a Public directory. I want to upload a separate site within the domain like www.domain.com/newsite i have created the folder new site but i am not able to access it it goes to 404 page not found.
the Htacess of the root is as below
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(?!sitemap\.xml$).(.*)\.xml$ [R=404,L]
RewriteRule ^(?!robots\.txt$).(.*)\.txt$ [R=404,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^$ public/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) public/$1 [L]
<ifModule mod_headers.c>
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
</ifModule>
I created anther folder inside public directory newsite still now able to open it.
Htacess inside public directory is
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
Any suggestions how can i access the folder directly

Answer 1

You only need to tell the root htaccess not to rewrite to public directory when your new folder is involved in the request. Currently, you have this part of code
RewriteRule ^$ public/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) public/$1 [L]
which means: rewrite root page / to public folder (first rule) and rewrite everything to public folder as well (second rule). Note by the way that your first rule is then useless.
Anyway, you need to add a condition to reach your goal
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/newsite
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
which means: rewrite everything except newsite folder to public folder.
At the end, your root htaccess should look like this
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(?!sitemap\.xml$).(.*)\.xml$ [R=404,L]
RewriteRule ^(?!robots\.txt$).(.*)\.txt$ [R=404,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/newsite
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
<ifModule mod_headers.c>
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
</ifModule>
Note the presence of RewriteBase which is always a good habit, especially when dealing with virtual directories created by some rules. Note also that your two xml rules could be rewritten in a more clever/cleaner way

Answer 2

Try to add
RewriteBase /newsite/
Write this line under "RewriteEngine On"

Answer 3

Try to use below rules,
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(?!sitemap\.xml$).(.*)\.xml$ [R=404,L]
RewriteRule ^(?!robots\.txt$).(.*)\.txt$ [R=404,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
#Adding exception for newsite if not new site do rewrite to public/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^!newsite
RewriteRule ^$ public/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) public/$1 [L]
You are getting not found error because you are currently internally rewriting everything to public directory please try the new rules if you haven't.