EE in subfolder not working correctly

Question

I've got EE running in a subfolder on a dev environment, such as:

http://website.com/folder_name/

But somehow, the folder keeps being removed from the URL for certain things. E.g. the "Home" icon on the home button in EE errors, because the URL looks like this:

/themes/cp_themes/default/images/home_icon.png

Not:

/folder_name/themes/cp_themes/default/images/home_icon.png

How can I fix this? There is no .htaccess file at the moment

Answer 1

You need to delete this out of your .htaccess when accessing EE from a sub folder:

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteBase /
    </IfModule>

Answer 2

There's a configuration value for the location of your themes directory. By default, in EE you'd change those by going here in the EE control panel:

Admin > General Configuration > URL to your "themes" folder

Eventually, many developers start setting configuration options like that in their config.php file; in this case, $config['theme_folder_path']and $config['theme_folder_url'] would be the applicable items. Delving into auto-setting dev/staging/production settings in config.php is beyond the scope of this post, but, is something you'll probably want to look into, if you haven't already.

Answer 3

Sounds like your .htaccess file needs to account for your subfolder when removing index.php for EE. Here's a code snippet you can use.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On

    # Removes index.php
    RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
    # IF YOU HAVE WEBSITE IN A SUB FOLDER: comment out above line, uncomment below line, & replace 'SUBFOLDERNAME'
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /SUBFOLDERNAME/index.php/$1 [L]

</IfModule>