WordPress multisite | ROOT redirects to SUBFOLDER - wordpress

I have a problem on my WordPress multisite. There's a WordPress installation on the root folder (public_html) of my domain and it was working fine.
We had to install a second WordPress site in a subfolder (public_html/subfolder).
If I try to access example.com/subfolder, the second website works fine.
If I try to access example.com, it redirects to example.com/subfolder. I no longer can access the first website.
ROOT .HTACCESS
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
SUBFOLDER .HTACCESS
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /subfolder/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /subfolder/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Can someone explain how to prevent this redirect?
Thanks!

Try to delete (or rename) root .htacces.

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I have a ubuntu server that has a wordpress installed on with link "https://gditac.com"
after that I installed another wordpress on subfolder like "https://gditac.com/news" but the problem is the second website redirects on first and show 404 not found page. I searche a lot but couldn't solve my problem.
here the htaccess for the root website :
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
and here the htaccess for subfolder website :
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /news/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /news/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
any idea whats going on?
I think best way is to create a subdomain e.g. news.gditac.com, install there your wordpress and make a permanent redirect from https://gditac.com/news to https://news.gditac.com
If you really want to install it on a subfolder then read this article:
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/134839/is-it-possible-to-install-wordpress-within-wordpress-installation
Alex

Wordpress two sites in different folders - redirecting issue

I have two Wordpress websites, one is in root and another in subfolder.
example.com and example.com/newsite
When I open example.com/newsite/ all is working good, but if I open any pages likes
example.com/newsite/about or example.com/newsite/contact
browser auto redirect to
example.com/about and example.com/contact
I changed all paths, address, home url in config and sql to example.com/newsite/
Root htacess looks like:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
htaccess for /newsite looks same.
Can anybody help me?
You should be using a different rewritebase if it's in a sub directory. Your wordpress rules in side htaccess under /newsite should look something like this.
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /newsite/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

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I have Wordpress installed in root and a particular folder not related to Wordpress. I created a .htaccess file for the particular folder, but it is not working. The Wordpress .htaccess is always been called.
Wordpress .htaccess:
# BEGIN WordPress
#<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
#RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
#</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Particular folder .htaccess:
//301 Redirect Old File
Redirect 301 http://www.domain.com/folder/start.php http://www.domain.com/folder/index.php
When I load the above old address (that does not exists), the Wordpress .htaccess is called, instead of use the folder's .htaccess to redirect.
You don't need multiple .htaccess you can put all the rules on the WordPress main .htaccess:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^folder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Use either:
RewriteRule ^folder/start\.php$ /folder/index.php [R=301,L,NC]
Or
Redirect 301 /folder/start.php http://www.domain.com/folder/index.php
Don't forget to change folder to your actual folder name.

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I was asked to move one working WP site (site 2) onto a folder of another WP site (site 1)(because the first site is being blocked in China and the second isn't).
so the complete URL ended up being www.site1.com/site2
I managed to do so but the links on the second site are no longer working, they show a 404 from site 1 but the URL seems OK
www.site1.com/site2/path_to_page_on_site_2 -> 404
I assume it is because of the .htaccess from site 1:
# Redirect images
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^font/(.*)$ /wp-content/themes/site1/font/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^timages/(.*)$ /wp-content/themes/site1/image/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^images/(.*)$ /wp-content/uploads/images/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^videos/(.*)$ /wp-content/themes/site1/video/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Site 2 has a "standard" .htaccess from WP
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
if it is an htaccess problem, how can i stop the htaccess from site 1 affecting site 2?
if it is something else, how can i fix it?
thanks in advance
I managed to do what i was after thanks to Nikola's comment. This is the final htaccess file for site2
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /site2
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /site2/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
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I have wordpress installed in subdirectory folder named "thumbs". I also followed the steps here.
Everything works fine but if I go to www.mysite.com/wp-admin it redirects me to www.mysite.com/thumbs/wp-admin, I don't want that to happen because I want the subdirectory folder to be secret.
So what I want is if I visit or somebody visit www.mysite.com/wp-admin I want the wordpress 404 error page to display. Thanks in advance for the help.
What am I missing?
You should modify your root .htaccess (not thumbs/.htaccess) file to add a rule for wp-admin, e.g. :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^wp-admin - [L]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
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# Switch rewrite engine off in case this was installed under HostPay.
RewriteEngine Off
SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 53
DirectoryIndex index.cgi index.php
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

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