Apache .htaccess, subfolder

Question

I have website on Phalcon and everything works fine (I have SSL) but now I would like to have an access to the forum (https://www.example.com/forum/) but I have a problem with the .htaccess configuration.

Phalcon have the specific config:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteBase /
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.com [NC]
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
 RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
 RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
 RewriteRule ^$ public/ [L]
 RewriteRule (.*) public/1ドル [L]
</IfModule>

What is the correct configuration for home domain and /forum/ folder?

Answer 1

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^ "http://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI}" [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^ "https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI}" [R,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forum/
RewriteRule ^.*$ public/0ドル [L]

• Nikolay Mihaylov: Great! You might want to accept Deadooshka's answer :)
• hdˑ: Hey @Deadooshka, it's frowned upon to post code only answers. Can you add a small explanation of what you did/what's going on?

Answer 2

Phalcon's root .htaccess file redirects all traffic to /public folder. What you need to do is add one more condition to your final rewrite rule. Here is portion of my .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine On
 # Force www
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
 RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)|
 RewriteRule ^ http%1://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
 # Remove trailing slash
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
 RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L]
 # Forward to public/
 RewriteRule ^(forum)($|/) - [L]
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/1ドル [L]
</IfModule>

This RewriteRule ^(forum)($|/) - [L] is the important condition you need to add before RewriteRule ^.*$ public/0ドル [L]

Also you can add as much as rules you want to allow multiple folders.

RewriteRule ^(forum)($|/) - [L]
RewriteRule ^(some-other-folder)($|/) - [L]
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