How do I edit .htaccess to allow both rails and wordpress requests?

Question

I want to run an instance of wordpress within my rails app. I currently have wordpress files housed in public/wordpress, but I need to configure my .htaccess file to allow both types of requests. How do I do that? currently, .htaccess is:

General Apache options
AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/!$ $1.html [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
ErrorDocument 500 "Application error Application failed to start properly"

Answer 1

You should start by adding this to the .htaccess in your public folder:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/wordpress.*
RewriteRule .* - [L]

However, this is not the whole story. You also need to edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/ with this addition (to tell Rails not to process anything in /blog as part of the app):

<Location /wordpress>  
PassengerEnabled off

Also in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf you may need to tell Apache to make any directory index (e.g. wordpress/) execute an index.php file if there is one:

DirectoryIndex index.php