For some reason domain.com/YYYY-MM-DD redirects to domain.com/var/htdocs/public_html

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^[^\./]+\.[^\./]+$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^archive/index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^. /archive/index.php [L]

trying to get anything after www.domain.com other than index.php and archive/index.php to display mysql content on archive/index.php (by grabbing PHP Request URI). The browser URL should remain www.domain.com/YYYY/MM/DD/blog-title or www.domain.com/YYYY/MM/ to display all posts from YYYY-MM