将特定网址重定向到首页

Question

I am building a React (frontend) with Wordpress (Backend - REST API) website. My domain is example.com which is going to have my React app (frontend) and on example.com/backend I have the Wordpress installation.

My problem is: I want to redirect example.com/backend and everything on to example.com except example.com/backend/wp-admin (so i can login). Is that do-able?

I tried lots of reggex in my .htaccess but none would do the trick. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^fanismahmalat.com/backend$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(. )?wp-login.php(. )$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(. )?wp-admin$ RewriteRule ^(. )$ https://example.com/ [R=301,L]

Answer 1

One way to exclude a URL is to have a rule before the "real" redirect, eg

RewriteRule ^backend/wp-admin - [L]
RewriteRule ^backend/ https://example.com [R,L]

The first rule will handle the wp-admin case. The second rule will catch anything else starting with backend/ .

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Another solution would be to exclude the specific URL from being rewritten

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/backend/wp-admin
RewriteRule ^backend/ https://example.com [R,L]

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When the .htaccess file is in the backend sub-folder, the rules are almost the same, but the RewriteRule pattern does not include the backend prefix

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/backend/wp-admin
RewriteRule ^ https://example.com [R,L]

or

RewriteRule ^wp-admin - [L]
RewriteRule ^ https://example.com [R,L]