.htaccess redirect

[driveflexfuel]

I have a wildcard redirect set for my domain as *.website.com

I am trying to figure out how I can setup the .htaccess redirect to point correctly

Subdomain test.website.com
Files are in website.com/test

I still want the url at the top to point to test.website.com

 

[leafypiggy]

That's just a subdomain..

Set it up in cpanel.

 

[driveflexfuel]

It is a wildcard redirect as I said. I have an outside company that creates a client id the id then becomes the subdomain the subdomain is only used to signify their own copy of the site. I have been trying to figure out how to set it up properly so that whatever they type it shows up with the same files but still contains their subdomain in the address.

The files are all located in /subdomain

 

[descalzo]

If you are talking about an x10 account, I'm pretty sure there is no way to do it.

Where you have a bit more control over the server, you should be able to do it.

 

[lemon-tree]

What you're trying to do requires a combination of a wildcard subdomain virtualhost and a URL rewriting .htaccess. Unfortunately, setting up a wildcard subdomain requires access to the virtualhosts setup in the Apache configuration, which is only available on a VPS and not free. I don't think it is available on x10premium either, but it may be possible through some more advanced cPanel options.

 

[driveflexfuel]

I have a premium hosting package with the wildcard redirect in place. My issue here is that no one knows the proper way to setup the .htaccess file to only direct one domain name and not the rest that are hosted on my package.

If you know how to modify the .htaccess file properly im all ears.

 

[lemon-tree]

Ok, I see now. What are the specifics (file paths, subdomains etc) that need to be redirected and where to?

 

[misson]

Are you looking for something like:

# redirect host "test" to "/test" internally, unless URL already begins with "test"
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} test.website.com
RewriteCond $1 !^test(/|$)
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) /test/$1

 

[descalzo]

Are you looking for something like:

# redirect host "test" to "/test" internally, unless URL already begins with "test"
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} test.website.com
RewriteCond $1 !^test(/|$)
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) /test/$1

Except that 'test' can be any string.

 

[misson]

I thought driveflexfuel wrote he only wanted to redirect a single subdomain. For mapping all subdomains to sub-directories, perhaps something like:

# ensure that subdomain refers to an existing sub-directory
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.website\.com$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%1 -d
RewriteRule ^ - [C]

# map subdomain to sub-directory if not already present in URL
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?website\.com$
# get the subdomain name
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.website\.com$
# don't add subdir if already present
RewriteCond %1/$1 !^([^/]+)/\1
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) /%1/$1

 

[driveflexfuel]

Thanks misson that is exactly what I was looking for.

 

[misson]

Note that neither has been tested.