htaccess not working

This works of my WordPress installation, sort of.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^search/country/(.*)$ http://%{SERVER_NAME}/blog/?search=1&country=$1 [L]
</IfModule>

This assumes that WordPress is installed in /blog/ and that’s where the .htaccess file is.

So http://my-test-dumy/blog/search/country/usa is confirmed in my logs to be rewritten as http://my-test-dumy/blog/?search=1&country=usa

But since there is no handler for those parameters all I get is my test installation.

Taking the /blog/ out of the rewrite rule will send that to the root.

RewriteRule ^search/country/(.*)$ http://%{SERVER_NAME}/?search=1&country=$1 [L]