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Posted by Matt Brock
Matt Brock
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Trouble with RewriteBase in htaccess

Does anyone have a solid grasp of how RewriteBase works? I'm developing multiple php websites (with MVC logic) locally and running a server with MAMP. Here's my file structure, with a directory "dev" set as my Document Root in MAMP:

dev/
]---- www/
    ]---- project1/
    ]---- project2/
    ]---- project3/

I want to set things up such that no matter what subdomain a project is in, it serves all pages and links correctly, without having to manually change all of my links within the php files themselves. I believe this is possible using htaccess and the RewriteBase directive, but I'm having no luck. Here's my htaccess file inside the project1 directory:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^about$ /about.php
RewriteBase /www/project1/

Currently, localhost/www/project1/about throws an error stating "The requested URL /about.php was not found on this server." Any ideas?