Mod-Rewrite loading files behind the DocumentRoot

Question

I\'m using .htaccess and mod_rewrite to point to files that reside behind the DocumentRoot. My folder structure looks like this:

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Answer 1

The credit goes to Ryan Aheam, but I'm going to spell it out. I'm a beginner and even with Ryan's answer I had to experiment with a few things to get the syntax right.

I wanted my DocumentRoot to be my cakephp directory. But then I had a Mantis Bug tracker that was just regular PHP and so not in the cakephp directory. The the files below I have the following working.

http://www.example.com : served by /var/www/cakephp

http://www.example.com/mantisbt : served by /var/www/html/mantisbt

File /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Alias /mantisbt/ "/var/www/html/mantisbt/"                                                                          
                                                                                        
    AllowOverride All                                                                                               
                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                  
    ServerAdmin me@my_email.com                                                                             
    DocumentRoot /var/www/cakephp                                                                                   
    ServerName my_website.com                                                                                      
                                                                                       
        AllowOverride All                                                                                           
                                                                                                        

File /var/www/cakephp/.htaccess

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule    ^mantisbt/?$   /mantisbt/  [NC,L]
    RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L]