CodingForums.com - htaccess in root conflicts with that of wordpress

Hi all,

I've an htaccess in root like

Code:

RewriteEngine On



Options -Indexes

Options +FollowSymlinks



RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]



RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

to handle all requests in index.php of root directory.

There is a wordpress module inside the /events directory, which has another htaccess like

Code:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /events/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /events/index.php [L]

</IfModule>



# END WordPress

Everything is fine if I make requests like http://www.example.com/events/ (with a trailing slash), but I get 500 Error - Internal Server Error when I try to access the page like http://www.example.com/events (with no slash at the end)

What could be the reason? Can I write another rule to tell the system to consider /events like /events/?

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Edit: I removed the forced www rule for the time being :cool: