Problems with Wordpress in subfolder, posts show a blank page

Question

I have wordpress installed in a subfolder and using permalinks but I'm getting a blank page when I try to access to any post.

This is what I have in the root folder .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wordpress/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wordpress/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ wordpress/index.php [L]

And this is what wordpress put in the subfolder .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

I'm using custom permalinks with /%postname%.html, the posts have the permalink correctly but when I try to access it shows only an empty blank page.

Answer 1

try using a blank htaccess file in your root folder and from there you can do a 301 redirect to your WP folder. i have had the same kind of issues with some hosts and always solved that way, it's not WP, it's always a faulty htaccess