I have a Joomla site mysite.com.
I want to have the subpage mysite.com/example act like a separate website using a separate domain name anothersite.com.
Can this be achieved using DNS settings on the domain and htaccess?
Hosting sites at cloudaccess.net but want this solution for one-page sites and landing pages without using a whole other hosting account / joomla instance.
Thanks.
If your hosting provider allows you to have "alias" domains, you can point the new domain at the existing code, and detect the hostname using RewriteCond:
Start by configuring the new domain to display all the same content as the existing domain.
In the Apache configuration (probably .htaccess on shared hosting) add a rule which detects requests for the new domain, and "rewrites" them to instead serve your specific page:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} landingpage.example.com
RewriteRule ^/$ /url/for/my/landing/page
Add an additional rule afterwards so that other URLs on that domain redirect the browser back to the main site
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} landingpage.example.com
RewriteRule ^/([^/].*)$ http://realsite.example.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
A variation of this would be to map everything on the second domain to a directory (or, rather, a URL prefix) in the first domain, by combining those two rules:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} subsite.example.com
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /url/for/my/subsite/$1 [L]
Note: If Joomla thinks it knows the "correct" URL for the page, it may try to redirect away from your new domain. If so, that is the topic for a new question.
If, on the other hand, you want to use Apache configuration to force users accessing http://realsite.example.com/url/for/my/landing/page to be redirected to http://landingpage.example.com/, you could add something like this:
RewriteRule ^/url/for/my/landing/page$ http://landingpage.example.com/ [L,R=permanent]
Note: Depending on some environment settings I don't fully understand, you may need to change ^/ to just ^ in the patterns above.
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I would like to redirect all users who visit pages on my old domain to the same page on my new domain (only the domain name is changing).
If my old domain is www.OLDDOMAIN.com and my new domain is www.NEWDOMAIN.com then I want to be able to redirect visitors who visit www.OLDDOMAIN.com/c/123/Page-Name to www.NEWDOMAIN.com/c/123/Page-Name (note that these are SEO friendly URLs and not simply sub directories or filenames)
However, I do not want this rule to apply to visitors from a certain IP addresses (lets say 2 IP address 123.123.123.123 and 345.345.345.345 - I appreciate these aren't valid).
I would also like to ensure that all subdomains e.g. files.OLDDOMAIN.com are NOT redirected to files.NEWDOMAIN.com
AND I would like the ability to add exclusions to this rule. E.g. I want to continue to be able to access www.OLDDOMAIN.com/index.php or a subfolder e.g. www.OLDDOMAIN.COM/admin/
The reason for need to do this is the website currently on www.OLDDOMAIN.com is being moved to www.NEWDOMAIN.com. and www.OLDDOMAIN.com is being repurposed for another website. The reason I need the redirects is to retain search engine rankings, at least until the new site is established. The solution therefore needs to be SEO friendly.
Apologies in advance for not supplying any code but I'm not entirely sure where to start with this one...
You can use this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
# exclude these IPs
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^(123\.123\.123\.123|345\.345\.345\.345)$
# exclude these URIs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(/index\.php|admin/) [NC]
# exclude sub-domains
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?OLDDOMAIN\.com$ [NC]
# redirect to new host
RewriteRule ^ http://www.NEWDOMAIN.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,L,NE]
I have a wordpress hosting account. I also have a standard web hosting account with the same host. My main website, domain.com is hosted on the Wordpress platform, BUT now I want to add a subdomain for sub.domain.com.
I can't host the script on sub.domain.com as part of the wordpress hosting, so I have been told to create it on my standard web hosting account and then use an A record in the DNS for domain.com to point to the IP of sub.domain.com.
Now, all this works if I visit http://sub.domain.com. However, www.sub.domain.com doesn't work.
What I want to know is, can I edit the .htaccess for domain.com to redirect anyone who visits www.sub.domain.com to http://sub.domain.com?
You can use this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.sub\.domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://sub.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
You can't use .htaccess to redirect traffic from www.sub.domain.com to sub.domain.com, because that traffic won't ever get to your server unless your DNS is set up correctly. In other words, if there's no DNS record for www.sub.domain.com, traffic looking for that address will never hit your server, so what is in your .htaccess would be irrelevant.
Keep in mind that you don't have to have www.sub.domain.com - almost nobody will visit that unless you share links using that domain yourself.
That said, if you really want to do this:
Create a sub-sub domain by creating an A record for www.sub.domain.com
Edit the .htaccess file for that sub-sub domain only, adding this rule:
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://sub.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
Upon request I have reformulated my question for clarity so others might benefit better from the answers.
I have 3 domains for the company I work for:
bizwizprint.com (the main website that is hosted on a shared server)
bizwizsigns.com (secondary domain with no hosting attached)
boatwiz.com (tertiary domain with no hosting attached)
The goal is to get my second and third domains to redirect to the first domain onto their own respective landing pages.
First Step: At the domain registrar, change the DNS "A Records" of the second and third domains to resolve to the same IP address that the main website is hosted on.
Second Step: Create a "Site Alias" on the main website server for the second and third domains, they will point to the root directory where the main website files reside.
Third Step: Create or edit an .htaccess file that will redirect the requests for the second and third domains and point them to the landing pages that I have created for them.
The question: What rules do I add to htaccess?
Essentially, I would like to have a user type in "boatwiz.com" in the address bar and the browser will literally GO TO "bizwizprint.com/boatwiz.html".
Please note: I do not want any rewrite rules that will change the actual URL to boatwiz.
The reason for this is that it is a temporary thing. Eventually there will be an actual "boatwiz" website and "bizwizsigns" website and they will most likely be very different in structure. I don't want it to appear that I have three domains with all the same content, or have people make any bookmarks that I will need to redirect yet again in the future.
"How do I redirect an external domain (boatwiz.com) to land in a specific page of a new domain (bizwizprint.com/boatwiz.html) without any rewriting?"
So you probably mean that you want an "internal redirect", not the "external redirect", right? I.e. you want e.g. the bizwizsigns.com to stay displayed in the browser Location bar, but show the contents
of bizwizprint.com/signs, right?
1. htaccess only - impossible
Well, using only .htaccess, this is impossible, because the different domain will force the external redirect. Citing the docs:
Absolute URL
If an absolute URL is specified, mod_rewrite checks to see whether the hostname matches the current host. If it does, the scheme and
hostname are stripped out and the resulting path is treated as a
URL-path. Otherwise, an external redirect is performed for the given
URL. To force an external redirect back to the current host, see the
[R] flag below.
2. Iframe trick
What you could do is to use iframe. Put this code at bizwizsigns.com/index.html:
<iframe src="http://bizwizprint.com/signs" width="100%" height="100%"
style="border: 0 none;" frameborder="0">
But there are many downsides of this solution:
the URL will not change in the browser's location bar, even if user clicks within the iframe
browser bookmarks and history will not work as expected.
3. Clever hosting setup (domain aliases into the same dir)
Are you in a hosting environment, or do you have your own server? Sometimes the hosting allows you to make aliases of several domains that are handled by the same local directory tree. In that case, you won - you can write .htaccess so that it handles the requests as internal redirects:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} bizwizsigns\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /signs [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} boatwiz\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /boats [L]
which will (internally) redirect bizwizsigns.com to /signs (= your content of bizwizprint.com/signs, because you have one hosting server directory for all 3 domains). But if you e.g. want all queries like bizwizsigns.com/<foo> to be redirected to bizwizprint.com/signs/<foo>, you have to be more careful - see the added condition on REQUEST_URI to prevent endless loop:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} bizwizsigns\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/signs/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ /signs/$1 [L]
Assuming that you have all 3 domains pointing to the same document root, you just need this in its htaccess file:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} bizwizsigns\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ http://bizwizprint.com/signs [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} boatwiz\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ http://bizwizprint.com/boats [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (bizwizsigns|boatwiz)\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ http://bizwizprint.com/$1 [L,R=301]
So if it's just http://bizwizsigns.com/ or http://boatwiz.com/, then you get redirected to http://bizwizprint.com/signs or http://bizwizprint.com/boats. But if you have anything after the last /, like http://bizwizsigns.com/foo/bar.html then you'll get redirected to http://bizwizprint.com/foo/bar.html.
I am setting up an existing wordpress install to use multisite. I have successfully set up the network and since it was an existing install it uses subdomains (which I wanted anyways).
I have created a new site/subdomain on my network so it would look something like this example.domain.com
The issue I am running into is getting wildcard subdomains setup on my hosting provider BlueHost.
I am hosting multiple domains so when I setup a wildcard it always points to the root or original ip address.
I need it to point to a specific directory of the root so it uses the correct wordpress install. root/specific-directory
Is there a way to achieve this? I am not too familiar with a and cname issues. If there is a way to achieve it by writing in the htaccess that would be okay too.
I am hosting multiple domains so when I setup a wildcard it always points to the root
I'm assuming you meant that you get the same content for example.domain.com as if you were visiting www.domain.com. This can surely be handled through htaccess rewrite rules.
If a sub-domain named subsite was to be served out of ${DOCUMENT_ROOT}/subsite directory, you would add the following rules to your .htaccess placed at your web root / directory:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subsite\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subsite [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subsite/$1 [L]
If there are several mutisite subdomains that need redirection, use the following dynamic rules instead:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?!www\.)([^.]+)\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}::%1 !^/([^/]+).*?::\1
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /%1/$1 [L]
You would also need to add ServerAlias *.domain.com to your <VirtualHost> configuration in Apache's httpd.conf file.
It seems BlueHost doesn't take up any requests to modify httpd.conf directly for you. But, they do provide a way to setup a wildcard subdomain from their Control Panel.
Take a look at How to Set Up a WordPress MultiSite in Bluehost. The last section outlines the process with screen shots. You also need to enable theme per site for your subdomains.
1- You can add your subdomain as an addon domain and it can have a separate subdirectory as you want.
2- Another way to achieve this is using another host for subdomians. On the second host you set up your subdomains and point your subdomains from your main host to subdomains on the secondary host.
I've read some stuff on this but cannot get it clear (or to work):
I have a domain (call it domain1.co.uk) registered with namesco, but pointing to web hosting elsewhere - the name servers are set to those of the hosting company.
With the hosting company, I have a number of different websites in folders under public_html.
I have another domain (call it domain2.co.uk) also registered by namesco, that redirects to one of the websites mentioned above (ie www.domain2.co.uk forwards to www.domain1.co.uk/thisparticularwebsite/home.php).
What I want to do is get a subdomain on domain2 (sub.domain2.co.uk) to reference a specific php script in thisparticularwebsite (ie www.domain1.co.uk/thisparticularwebsite/sub.php).
namesco tell me I can do this by creating an A record or a CNAME record, but it can only reference the top level domain (public_html at domain1), not a sub-directory or script.
What I think need to do therefore is use .htaccess as follows in the root directory of domain1.co.uk
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub\.domain2\.co\.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.domain1.co.uk/thisparticularwebsite/sub.php [R-301]
or possibly
....
RewriteRule ^.*$ /thisparticularwebsite/sub.php [R-301]
and then create a CNAME record on domain2 for sub (ie sub >> domain1.co.uk).
Is that right?(it doesn't seem to work, though it is unclear what is going on as DNS updates may not have propagated fully yet).
One thing I am not sure if is what should actually turn up in HTTP_HOST - is it the string as typed in by the originating client, or does it get modified along the way by the CNAME records?
.htaccess code should be
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub\.domain2\.co\.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.domain1.co.uk/thisparticularwebsite/sub.php [L,R=301]