Wordpress site .htaccess with different rules in subdirectory

[JayNic]

Hi all,

 

I really don't understand htaccess very well, and I feel like what I'm trying to do is simple, but I can't get it to work.

 

I have a wordpress site, and in the public_html folder is the .htaccess file with the following body:

# Use PHP54 Single php.ini as default
#AddHandler application/x-httpd-php54s .php

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

That's all fine for the public website, but I'm trying to build a rest api in a subdirectory:

www.example.com/api/

 

- and I want all requests that go anywhere in /api to go to my single file: www.example.com/api/myapp.php

 then I plan on just handling everything with some php in there by parsing the path:

$path = strtolower(parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH));
$path = rtrim($path, '/'); //remove trailing slash

// ... do stuff based on path

So for example, if I made a POST request to: 

https://www.example.com/api/v1/dothing

 - then myapp.php would find that $path is "/api/v1/dothing"

 

Then I can grab post params, get params what have you...

 

 

I don't want to impact the current wordpress site - ONLY the /api directory...

 

Thanks for your help

 

[requinix]

Make /api be an actual directory, first of all. Then you can basically reuse that in /api/.htaccess, but change the RewriteBase to suit.

[JayNic]

Thanks for the reply - I think I'm still not getting it right... cause now I still get the "index of /api" screen.

 

I have the following structure:

 

the and files:

.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /api
RewriteRule ^api\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /api.php [L]
</IfModule>

api.php

<?php

header("Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8");

echo json_encode(["hey"=>"there"]);

but I'm still getting this:

[requinix]

Name your file index.php.

 

Unless you really don't want to?

[JayNic]

Thanks for your help - I ended up getting it working with the following:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /api
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*)$ index.php?request=$1 [QSA,NC,L]
</IfModule>

and in my /api/index.php file I can see everything:

//api/index.php
if (!array_key_exists('HTTP_ORIGIN', $_SERVER)) {
    $_SERVER['HTTP_ORIGIN'] = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
}


$echo = [
    "request" => $_REQUEST['request'], //The request directory with get params
    "getParams" => isset($_GET) ? $_GET : null,
    "postParams" => isset($_POST) ? $_POST : null,
    "fileInput" => file_get_contents('php://input'),
    "httpOrigin" => $_SERVER['HTTP_ORIGIN']
];

echo json_encode($echo)

[rx3mer]

@JayNic I am having a similar issue. Did you managed to figure it out?

 

 

[requinix]

5 hours ago, rx3mer said:

@JayNic I am having a similar issue. Did you managed to figure it out?

Judging by the "I ended up getting it working", I'm going to say yes.