Friendly URL within a directory - php

Question

I have a Wordpress installation in a domain and within a directory, I have a site developed in PHP+MySQL completely independent of the wordpress. It works alone. This site is a backoffice, so it's installed under the /backoffice/ directory.
One of the directories of the backoffice I have another directory I want it works with friendly URL's.
In my .htaccess I have the following rules:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^backoffice/edit_user/([^/\.]+)/?$ /backoffice/edit_user/index.php?o=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/server-status
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^login/?$ wp-login.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^postpass/?$ wp-login.php?action=postpass [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^logout/?$ wp-login.php?action=logout [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^lostpassword/?$ wp-login.php?action=lostpassword [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^retrievepassword/?$ wp-login.php?action=retrievepassword [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^resetpass/?$ wp-login.php?action=resetpass [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^rp/?$ wp-login.php?action=rp [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^register/?$ wp-login.php?action=register [QSA,L]
When invoked a url like this one: mydomain.com/backoffice/edit_user/joseantonio the 404 page come up.
What's wrong?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

As it is in this answer - you can debug your Apache rewrites. Turn on RewriteLog in your virtual host OR server configuration:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteLog "/var/log/apache2/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 3
Then you'll see what rule makes it to redirect 404.

Answer 2

Finally, I could find the solution:
Here is the code used in conjuntion with the wordpress:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
**RewriteRule ^backoffice/edit_user/([^/\.]+)/?$ /backoffice/edit_user/index.php?o=$1 [L,NC,QSA]**
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/server-status
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^login/?$ wp-login.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^postpass/?$ wp-login.php?action=postpass [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^logout/?$ wp-login.php?action=logout [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^lostpassword/?$ wp-login.php?action=lostpassword [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^retrievepassword/?$ wp-login.php?action=retrievepassword [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^resetpass/?$ wp-login.php?action=resetpass [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^rp/?$ wp-login.php?action=rp [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^register/?$ wp-login.php?action=register [QSA,L]
As you can see, I changed the position of my rule after the index.php rule, works fine, in any other position, it will not work.

Answer 3

You can try to use own .htaccess in /backoffice/ folder with
RewriteBase /backoffice/
# all the backofice rules