I am at a loss here.. A site I am working on has been under a /beta folder sub to webroot (/public_html/beta), and to make it live, rather than moving to root (and having naming conflicts with other lesser apps), we've opted to have htaccess rewrite ^www. over to /beta. Looks good at first, but now Drupal produces links and reference to webassets as /beta/contact, /beta/about, etc.
Is there a way around it? I have tinkered with $base_url in settings.php and RewriteBase in Drupal's .htaccess.
Would prefer not to employ a proxy. Is there something simple we are overlooking?