Htaccess File For Friendy URLs Conflict

[Morpheo]

I am trying to turn on the Rewrite URLs feature in System >> Search Engine Optimization >> Friendy URLs.

My site already has two .htaccess files:

1) In the site's root directory. This is the main .htaccess file which I am modifying.

2) In the [root]/wordpress/ directory which is necessary for the wordpress blog I have located on my site. I am not modifying this.

The problem is, when I paste the required code into the root .htaccess file, everything works but my wordpress URLs become broken. How do make sure that the wordpress .htaccess file is unaffected?

Here is the htaccess code I'm pasting in:

IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /forum/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule \.(js|css|jpeg|jpg|gif|png|ico)(\?|$) /forum/404error.php [L,NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /forum/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

And here is the .htaccess file in the [root]/wordpress/ directory:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Thanks!

[Adlago]

What your domain loaded- IPS forum or WordPress?

 

[ipbfuck]

IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 Options -MultiViews
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteBase /forum/
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteRule \.(js|css|jpeg|jpg|gif|png|ico)(\?|$) /forum/404error.php [L,NC]
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule . /forum/index.php [L]
 </IfModule>

this os valid for forum subdirectory, not in root!

 

if u have your ipb I, root u can edit as:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 Options -MultiViews
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteBase /
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteRule \.(js|css|jpeg|jpg|gif|png|ico)(\?|$) /404error.php [L,NC]
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
 </IfModule>

 

and WordPress htaccess is no more necessary (is the same code, so, it's redundancy)!

[Morpheo]

Thank you very much! That fixed it! I simply created a new .htaccess file in the /forum/ directory and placed the code there. Now it works! :D

[ipbfuck]

ok, one subdirectory for forum, and another for WordPress!

so, is best to put two separate htaccess (one in every directory with right rewritebase) without htaccess in root (or only one in root and test if work fine for both subdirectory... I think to yes, but untested)