Redirecting behind public_html directory

[kevisazombie]

Hi All,

 

Is this possible? I have my site in a directory structure like this:

 

home/

  -user/

      -user_images/

      -user_files/

      -twiki/

      -public_html/

            -index.php

 

I would like to redirect incoming requests for http://www.mydomain.com/twiki  to the twiki/ directory. I am not sure if it is possible because it is "behind the wall" in a web inaccessible folder. I am able to access user_images/ and user_files/ through relative urls in php. I was wondering if there was similar way with .htaccess like:

 

RewriteRule twiki/$  ../twiki/

[jackpf]

I'm not sure if apache would allow you to do that, as anything outside of public_html can't be accessed by http request.

 

Why not just have an index file that includes files in upper-level directories?

[kevisazombie]

Sorry I kind of simplified my example. Where I have the index.php listed in my directory structure I am actually hosting a pretty big web application. The web application runs on this MVC frame work that uses a .htaccess file to remap all incoming urls to index.php as GET variables.

For example http://www.mydomain.com/twiki ends up as http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?1=twiki

 

So the web app will not redirect to the twiki directory and will come back with an error as there is no controller for twiki.

 

Currently I have the twiki directory under Public_Html and have modified .htaccess to direct accordingly. I would however like to keep the twiki out of the web apps files, and out of the public_html for organizational purposes. I thought this might be easy as my hosting provider has a cpanel directory setup behind the public_html which http://www.mydomain.com/cpanel is directed to.

 

I'm thinking I would need to edit the apache config and add an alias or something. Also I suppose I could make a twiki controller for the web app which would redirect accordingly.