I was taught that it is a good practice to separate publicly viewed webpages from included files and other, more sensitive information.That poses a problem, however, when you wish to request index.php in the public folder. Allow me to illustrate:Site Root/    Includes/        -server_side_validation.php    Public/        -index.php        JS/           -js_form_validation.js    Sandbox/    Etc..To get to index.php, I have to type in www.mywebsite.com/public/index.php, which is ugly.So I learned a little about .htaccess and after a lot of trail and error I came to this code:AddType application/x-httpd-php55 .php# turn on rewrite engineRewriteEngine on## remove /public from host nameRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}    ^www.mywebsite.ca$ [NC,OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}    ^mywebsite.ca$RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !public/RewriteRule (.*)    /public/$1 [L]What this apparently does is turn www.mywebsite.com/public/index.php into www.mywebsite.com, essentially hiding the /public/index.php part but still requesting index.php.That all works dandy until I try to execute a pretty routine user registration from my index.php page. It goes like this:On index.php, I have a registration form and a JS script that validates the form then sends an AJAX request to ../includes/registration_val.php to validate again on the server side before database submission. The JS validation file is inside the public folder, inside a JS folder. So one directory deep inside the public folder.When I attempt to submit the form to the server_side_validation.php from js_form_validation.js, I get 404 Not Found. Upon inspection I see that the request goes to /public/includes/registration_val.php.So it seems to imply that my code seems to mistake public/ as the site root instead of actual site root.Now when I bypass the above .htaccess code, the problem goes away. So somewhere in my .htaccess I'm boning the whole thing up and I'm hoping one of you programmers much smarter than I can come to my rescue so I can get things back on track.I want to keep that nice little benefit of clearing away the /public/index.php directory in favor of a nice clean www.mywebsite.com but without screwing up any internal directory traversing.Muchas gracias!!
.htaccess wreaking havoc on site root! Help!
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