htaccess, site and staging in subdirectories

Assuming the /wp2 subdirectory containing the staging site has its own WordPress .htaccess file (with the standard WordPress front-controller, see below). Then the .htaccess in the document root should contain something like the the following, above any existing directives, to rewrite all requests to the wp2 subdomain to the /wp2 subdirectory:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(wp2)\.example\.com
RewriteRule (.*) /%1/$1 [L]

Then, the “standard” WordPress front-controller would be in the /wp2/.htaccess file (this also prevents a potential rewrite loop):

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

Note that I have removed the RewriteBase directive entirely and removed the slash prefix on the last RewriteRule substitution. This is so that it will load index.php from /wp2/index.php and not the document root. (Which is really how I would expect the main site in /wp1 to be configured.)

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