issues with document root and rewrite urls

Hi,

I have a setup where I want the document root to set to the main
directory where my application is residing.

Currently, the path to my directory is something like this:
/var/www/html/dev.mydomain.com/aaa/code_project/
app/
cake/
index.php
plugins
README
vendors

Now the point where all this started was when I was writing URLs for
my navigation tabs.

For eg, to access the tab 'inbox', I wanted to write the URL in the
file to be was '/inbox/'. But when I did that, the URL actually
pointed to http://dev.mydomain.com/inbox/. I guess that means my
document root is not pointing to the code_project directory but to the
dev.mydomain.com directory.

I wrote the following line in the .htaccess file,

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]

# this line was added by me
#DocumentRoot /var/www/html/dev.mydomain.com/aaa/bbb/code_project/app/webroot/
</IfModule>

But, when I tried accessing the url, it gave me a 500 error.

Can anybody help me gaining knowledge of how exactly this thing works
and how to set it all up?

Thanking you guys in advance and looking forward to some replies.

regards,
Rishab

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