.htaccess - alias domain root to subfolder - .htaccess

I've got an install of concrete5 living in my site root - the problem is that the C5 file structure is pretty varied, and it's getting mixed in with my subdirs and subdomains. I can't tell what's my code and what's C5, I hate it.
My solution is to move everything to a /_concrete/ folder - but since my domain has to point to the root, I can't use the files here.
Enter .htaccess: I need to write a script to redirect any instance of www.domain.com (ignore subdomains) to www.domain.com/_concrete/ - but not a transparent 301, just an alias. To clarify: www.domain.com/page/ and www.domain.com/_concrete/page/ should display the same thing. www.domain.com/page/ should NOT change it's URL to www.domain.com/_concrete/page/.
I've adapted this from a similar script I use elsewhere:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /_concrete/$1 [L,QSA]
But this only causes a server error. I hope I'm close - can anyone point me in the right direction?

You're telling the server to check if the value is not a filename, but you're not having it ignore the _concrete directory itself (which would also match your script and create a loop).
This might get you closer to what you're trying to do.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^_concrete
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ _concrete/$1 [L,QSA]
Additionally you might want to have it ignore directories that exist as well. At which point _concrete would no longer be matched because it exists.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ _concrete/$1 [L,QSA]

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Point to a file in subfolder with .htaccess

I've wanted to move my index.php file from the root to /system/ folder, this is for no reason but giving myself opporunity to learn more about .htaccess, which I am finding very confusing.
How can I achieve this? Currently my code looks as follows
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?query=$1
This allows for example mydomain.com/some-url/ to become /index.php?query=some-url for example, this far I'm with it all. But moving the file into System folder and addind /system/ before /index.php does nothing. How does one do this? Thanks!
This could be done with a simple rewriterule. Please make sure you clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/?$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ system/index.php [L]

htAccess exclude directory

I already searched for the answer in other questions and tried a few solutions with no luck:
In the root of my website I use the following code in .htaccess and it works fine:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [L,QSA]
But now I need to define that when I'm in the /admin directory it has to act normal.
Because when for example I link a stylesheet in a file in /admin, I have to define the src as "/admin/something.css" because else it will look for domain.com/css/something.css
Can someone tell me what to do?
Added:
RewriteRule ^admin - [L,NC]
Before anything else.
The - means do nothing.
The L means this should be last rule; ignore everything following.
The NC means no-case (so "ADMIN" is also matched).
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.htaccess. Redirect requests to ~username folder

Situation:
I'm moving a website from a production environment to a test environment.
The test environment url is similar to http://192.168.1.100/~username/
There are thousands of files which use the following within the html
<img src='/images/image.jpg' />
Since the request is going to root http://192.168.1.100/ the files are 404.
Rather than finding and replacing all of html I'd assume that there is an easy way to fix it with mod_rewrite via .htaccess.
I've tried using the following
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/~username/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /~username/$1
But did not work as expected.
Thanks in advance.
UPDATE
The development environment resides within cpanel/whm. So when the username is removed from the requested url, it now belongs to the root users. So, my question now: How do I update the .htaccess file for the root user to mod_rewrite back to the ~username?
If you remove
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
it appears to work as expected, because any request to the right url will not be rewritten.
you might want to add [L] as a flag to signify it's the last rewrite rule, like so:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/~username/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /~username/$1 [L]

Possible .htaccess errors, 1and1.com not rewriting

The following .htaccess file works perfectly on my local server.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.cssc
RewriteRule . style.php [L]
RewriteRule ^admin\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . admin.php [L]
I am doing some work for a client and he is using 1and1.com. I do not know anything about his account or what package he has.
All files are rewritten to admin.php (unless they actually exist). The problem is, I am getting a 404.
I know it's reading the .htaccess file because:
I can put garbage in the file and get a 500 error.
If I do a general rewrite (all pages go to admin.php), it works.
Also, it seems that 1and1 does it's own rewriting. If I go to: http://somewhere/afile, it will include afile.js even though I am not requesting the .js.It is super strange.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Or any insight?
To add some information..
1and1 seem to have some sort of default rewriting already in place that can interfere with your own rules - for example:
RewriteRule ^product$ /product.php [L]
It gave a 404 for this, and also for any other rewrite rule that matched a pre-existing .php file in my root folder.
2 things that 'fixed' it:
Change rewrite text to no longer match filename:
RewriteRule ^productz$ /product.php [L]
Or, change filename:
RewriteRule ^product$ /product_.php [L]
Both work - both very annoying.
The answer was simply "Do not nest .htaccess files". I had one in a sub folder.

Excluding a script from the general UrlRewrite rules

I have following rewrite rules for a website:
RewriteEngine On
# Stop reading config files
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} .*/web.config$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} .*/\.htaccess$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ - [F]
# Rewrite to url
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(/bilder_losning/|/bilder/|/gfx/|/js/|/css/|/doc/).*
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.cfm?smartLinkKey=%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
Now I have to exclude a script including its eventually querystrings from the above rules, so that I can access and execute it on the normal way, at the moment the whole url is being ignored and forwarded to the index page.
I need to have access to the script shoplink.cfm in the root which takes variables tduid and url (shoplink.cfm?tduid=1&url=)
I have tried to resolve it using this:
# maybe?:
RewriteRule !(^/shoplink.cfm [QSA]
but to be honest, I have not much of a clue of urlrewriting and have no idea what I am supposed to write. I just know that above will generate a nice 500 error.
I have been looking around a lot on stackoverflow and other websites on the same subject, but all I see is people trying to exclude directories, not files. In the worst case I could add the script to a seperate directory and exclude the directory from the rewriterules, but rather not since the script should really remain in the root.
Just also tried:
RewriteRule ^/shoplink.cfm$ $0 [L]
but that didn't do anything either.
Anyone who can help me out on this subject?
Thanks in advance.
Steven Esser
ColdFusion programmer
Please try to put the following line at the top of your config (after RewriteEngine on):
RewriteRule ^shoplink.cfm$ - [L]

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