I have an .htaccess file problem I am hoping someone can help me with. I'm using hostgator and it is possible to access my website using either of these urls http://www.mydomainname.com or http://gatorXXX.hostgator.com/~rubicon/mydomainname/.
My CMS uses a .htaccess file to channel all pages requests via a single php file (masterpagecontroller.php). Ideally I would like to get my CMS to work when accessing from both urls. This would enable me to test a new version of my website using the (temporary) gator url while the site is still live on another host.
When the domain is hosted on hostgator, without any .htaccess file, I can access the file phpinfo.php fine using both of the above urls.
The following .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule !\.(gif|jpg|png|css|swf|xml|flv|mpg|js|bmp|pdf)$ /home/rubicon/public_html/mydomainname/masterpagecontroller.php [NC,L]
works using http://www.mydomainname.com but not if I use http://gatorXXX.hostgator.com/~rubicon/mydomainname/, this gives a 404 error.
If I use this htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymLinks
ErrorDocument 404 /~rubicon/mydomainname/phpinfo.php
And I reference a file that doesn't exist then I get successfully redirected to phpinfo.php using both http://www.mydomainname.com and http://gatorXXX.hostgator.com/~rubicon/mydomainname/.
However, if I use this .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule !\.(gif|jpg|png|css|swf|xml|flv|mpg|js|bmp|pdf)$ /~rubicon/mydomainname/masterpagecontroller.php [NC,L]
Using either http://www.mydomainname.com or http://gatorXXX.hostgator.com/~rubicon/mydomainname/ I get a 500 error.
I would greatly appreciate any thoughts here on whether if it is possible to have a single .htaccess file that will work when accessed from both urls. Hopefully I haven't made an obvious mistake!
Aaron