I am trying to server a static HTML site from /sites/default/files/staticsite and make it available via a subdomain. I’m hosting the site on Acquia Cloud, and their docs describe Maintaining a static microsite alongside Drupal’s docroot.

This solution is working, with the exception of index.html page (homepage) which returns a 404.

• http://subdomain.example.com/ returns a 404
• http://subdomain.example.com/index.html success

The setup describe in the docs

I have added the required domain to my Acquia Cloud dashboard so the server will accept requests for the subdomain.

I have updated docroot/.htaccess with the following RewriteRule to redirect requests to the static files. The following rules are the first lines in the .htaccess file.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>   RewriteEngine on   # Only serve the static site for a particular host.   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain.example.com.au$ [OR]   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^dev-subdomain.example.com.au$ [OR]   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^stage-subdomain.example.com.au$   # Don't loop anything targeting the actual mask directory, to allow   # for linked scripts, stylesheets etc in the static HTML   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/sites/default/files/staticsite/   #Any requests that made it this far are served from the /staticsite/ directory   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /sites/default/files/staticsite/$1 [PT,L] </IfModule> 

The files have been uploaded to sites/default/files/staticsite

Things I’ve tried

I thought DirectoryIndex must be disabled for these directories so I tried adding DirectoryIndex index.html in both /sites/default/files and /sites/default/files/staticsite but neither have had an effect.

I tried elevating the DirectoryIndex directive to the top of the existing /sites/default/files/.htaccess file, as well as placing it last. Neither fixed the 404 error.

I’ve tried removing the /sites/default/files/.htaccess and adding a new .htaccess file with just DirectoryIndex index.html to test if the SetHandler Drupal_Security_Do_Not_Remove_See_SA_2006_006 was impacting things. No change still got 404.

I’ve tried adding the [END] flag to the RewriteRule to stop the current rewrite process and subsequent rewrite processes, but still got the 404.

Log entries

When making a request to `http://subdomain.example.com/ I see the following entry in the Apache error log:

Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use ‘LimitInternalRecursion’ to increase the limit if necessary. Use ‘LogLevel debug’ to get a backtrace.

I’m unable to define ‘LogLevel` because Acquia Cloud do not provide access to the server config, virtual host, and directory contexts which this directive can be defined in.