How to configure .htaccess for subdirectory

Question

I have a WordPress site hosted on AWS and I am having a hard time to configure mod_rewrite to work correctly.

Folder structure

/root
  |_ staging/
  |_ live/

The .htaccess is the WordPress default

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

Main Problem

I can access /staging/index.php/api which I used to access it without subdirectories like this ---.com/api .

When I try /staging/api it shows File not found .

I tried to change the .htaccess to different thing but none of them was successful.

There are no .htaccess file in the root directory.

Some help would be appreciated =)

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try this code

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /staging
  RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule . /staging/index.php [L]

</IfModule>

Note: The AllowOverride should be set to All in server configuration. You can find the reference from here. How to Set AllowOverride all