WordPress As A Symfony (Symfony3) Subdirectory

Question

I am running a Symfony app on DigitalOcean. I have setup the entire site and created VirtualHosts. I need to run WordPress as a subdirectory (/blog). From what I know Symfony tends to ignore subdirectories in /web so I created /web/blog and installed WordPress in it.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site.com/web
    <Directory /var/www/html/site.com/web>
        AllowOverride None
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from All

        <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
            Options -MultiViews
            RewriteEngine On
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
            RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app.php [QSA,L]
        </IfModule>
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/symfony_error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/symfony_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

On localhost installations without VirtualHost this runs perfectly.

But on the live server, lets say at 21.21.21.21 I have Symfony running and 21.21.21.21/blog should open blog but it doesn't, instead goes to a Symfony 404. Whereas 21.21.21.21/blog/index.php runs the blog (WordPress).

The WordPress .htaccess which lives in /web/blog is as follows:

Options -Indexes
DirectoryIndex index.php

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /blog/
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

I have tried tinkering with this with some answers on the web, nothing changes.

Answer 1

Update your vhost so that you exclude your /blog directory from symphony rules. And you will also need to change to AllowOverride All since you are using .htaccess in /blog.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site.com/web
    <Directory /var/www/html/site.com/web>
        AllowOverride All
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from All

        <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
            Options -MultiViews
            RewriteEngine On
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog(/.+)? [NC]
            RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app.php [QSA,L]
        </IfModule>
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/symfony_error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/symfony_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Be sure to restart apache after changes.

WordPress .htaccess Changes:

 Options -Indexes
 DirectoryIndex index.php

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /blog/
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress