Urgent: how to stop htaccess to work on a subdomain?

Question

hi, i have a website, lets say: http://www.domain.com/

and im using rewrite module but! i have a subfolder forum.domain.com

and i dont want the htaccess to affect this directory, how to do it?

please, its real urgent

Answer 1

In httpd.conf:

<Directory /relevant/directory>
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>

See the documentation.

Answer 2

Set AllowOverride directive in the subdomain virtualhost to None

Answer 3

You could use a RewriteCond to only apply your rule when a particular domain name is used.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.comt$ [nocase]
RewriteRule foo bar [l]

Answer 4

If your forum.domain.com points to a subdirectory like you suggested (and your current .htaccess file is in the directory that contains that subdirectory, or some directory above it), then all you have to do is add a .htaccess file in the subdirectory with the following:

RewriteEngine Off

And it will disable mod_rewrite for any requests that point to that directory.

Answer 5

It is probably easiest to precede the RewriteRule with a RewriteCond directive

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$

This way, the RewriteRule is only applied to requests matching the RewriteCond, which required the HTTP host header to match www.domain.com. (assuming Apache 2.2; I'm not sure whether this syntax is different for previous versions).