Wordpress: htaccess point folder to root directory?

Question

1. I have a domain: www.domain.com - not wordpress cms, install folder public_html in hosting.
2. I have a website English and German version - use wordpress cms.
3. I install wordpress cms in folder: public_html/en/
4. Link follow: www.domain.com not wordpress cms. www.domain.com/en/ wordpress cms root (English default) www.domain.com/en/de wordpress German version.

=> How to run the German version with the link as follow: www.domain.com/de

I tried with the .htaccess in the public_html folder but not run:

 RewriteRule ^/de$ /en/index.php

Thank all!

Answer 1

This is not perfect solution because WP is in charge of the URLs.

So even if the following is working, the URLs that WP put on your Website are still /en/de and so the user will always be clicking on /en/de and get than redirected to /de

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule ^/?en/de(/.*)?$ /de$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^/?de(/.*)?$ /en/de$1 [L]

Update:

If this is not working than you still have the WP issue, because WP can't interpreter the URL right, therefor this could not be solved by htaccess itself.

Answer 2

Put the folowing code at your main root .htaccess file :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !\s/+de/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^en/de/(.*)$ de/$1 [R=302,L,NE]
RewriteRule ^de/(.*)$ en/de/$1 [L]

The code above will only remove en if request contains en/de externally and redirect it internally to same path .

Test it , if it is ok , change 302 to 301 to get permanent redirection .

Note: clear your browser cache and test it .