I'm using IIRF on an IIS 6.0 server to redirect users from a "www" version of the site to a "non-www" version using the following code:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mydomain.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]
However, I have to create a file with this code in the root of the website, and I have quite a lot of different websites and domains to add this to file too. Is there any way of making the code above generic, so that even though the file will still be created in each website folder (as this is easy to do with the content management system), that I don't actually have to specify the domain name and it would still redirect the user from "www" to "non-www"?
Thanks
Mark
This is what I use...
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
I'm using this one:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
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My host automatically sets up subdomains for all our hosted websites. So that zzz-thewebsite.myhosting.com is the same files as www.thewebsite.com ...
Unfortunately, somehow google has indexed the subdomains and now I probably have duplicate content.
I'd like to remove the subdomains from the index. I'm not sure the best way to do it.
I was thinking a .htaccess file that redirects zzz-thewebsite.myhosting.com to www.thewebsite.com would probably do the trick. Of course, there are subfolders involved as well.
Is there an elegant solution for this? I suppose a robots.txt might also do it but that will be in the both the zzz-thewebsite.myhosting.com and www.thewebsite.com "sites" since they are the same physical folder on the hosting.
Thank you.
Ben's answer below works great for me on non https sites but is not working for an https site. What I am using is this:
#attempt to redirect subdomain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thewebsite-zzz.myhosting.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.thewebsite.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,NC,L,QSA]
#https only
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
#www only
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thewebsite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.thewebsite.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]
Setting up a permanent redirect is a preferred way.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^zzz-thewebsite.myhosting.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.thewebsite.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,NC,L,QSA]
I am in a situation where an user can create his blog in a subdomain.
Users will create blogs and enter the address he wants like say,
abcd.domain.com Then my php code creates a directory called abcd.
To view the blog user will type in abcd.domain.com in his browser and I want a .htaccess code which will rewrite the url and open the files inside the domain.com/abcd
But for the user the url in the browser should stay abcd.domain.com
Currently I am trying this code
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^test\.domain\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^test/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /test/$1 [L,QSA]
But this gives me 404 even though I have a file test.html inside the test folder and trying to view that page.
Also in this situation I will have to manually make change to the .htaccess file for URL rewrite. What I want to know is if it is possible to have a wild card subdomain redirect to the respective directory.
You can use:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^test\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/test/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /test/$1 [L,QSA]
REQUEST_URI with leading /.
With wild card subdomain:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+)\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/%1/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /%1/$1 [L,QSA]
Note that it takes more than a rewrite rule to have wildcard subdomains. Just fyi.
You need to have created a wildcard DNS record for subdomains and also tell apache to use any subdomain request by having a ServerAlias of *.domain.com in the apache config.
Then try your rule this way and see if it works for you.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^((?!www).+)\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %1::%{REQUEST_URI} !^(.*?)::/\1/?
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /%1/$1 [L,QSA]
After redirecting my client domain to my server i created rewrite rule in root folder .htaccess file to point domain to a subfolder1 (joomla website):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?myclientdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/subfolder/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subfolder1/$1 [L]
Everything worked fine but today i found out that i can access any other subfolder in my server by entering for example: myclientdomain.com/subfolder2 and what's worse google can index that and show it in search results.
If there is any way to redirect a domain in a way that I won't be able to access any other folder on my server?
I would really appreciate help as I searched throughout google for answer, my server tech support said that they don't really support these kind of problems (they only gave me a piece of code from above) and I don't really know anything about .htaccess rules and how it works.
Try this
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?myclientdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subfolder\/?(.*)?$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subfolder1/$1 [L]
Change above rule to:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?myclientdomain\.com$ [NC]
# if current URI is not starting with /subfolder/ then route to /subfolder/
RewriteRule ^((?!subfolder1/).*)$ subfolder1/$1 [L,NC]
Through a little research I came up with an htaccess rewrite rule in my development directory that takes a wildcard subdomain to its matching instance name in my development folder. I will admit I know little to nothing about this so help is really needed. So the current htaccess behaves as such:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain\.com$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(\w+)\.mydomain\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}:%1 !^/([^/]+)/([^:]*):\1
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /%1/$1 [QSA]
example
instance_folder_name.mydomain.com
redirects to
public_html/development/instance_folder_name
this works great because it allows me to have development websites in the development directory and i dont have to be constantly creating subdomains for each site.
the problem I am having is how to approach the following scenerio:
I use virtual domains as an add on component in Joomla so that several domains are being managed by one single Joomla install. So i may have the following subdomains...
client1.mydomain.com
client2.mydomain.com
client3.mydomain.com
that all need to go to
/public_html/development/client1
I guess what i need is a general rule on how to handle all wildcard subdomains, but with exceptions for client1, client2, client3 for example
You can have a separate rules for these 3 subdomains and add an exclusion condition in the older rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(client1|client2|client3)\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^((?!client1/).*)$ /client1/$1 [L,NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(client1|client2|client3)\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain\.com$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(\w+)\.mydomain\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}:%1 !^/([^/]+)/([^:]*):\1
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /%1/$1 [L]
Well it's kind of hard typing a title to describe what I want to do.
Basically I have a website that I've been asked to develop a mobile site for. This website has various domains (such as .co.za,.com,.za.net) but they all run from the same folder on the server (so I only have one .htaccess file).
I want to be able to redirect the traffic that goes to www.example.co.za to m.example.co.za and traffic that goes to www.example.com to m.example.com.
How would I need to modify this .htaccess file to achieve that.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "alcatel|amoi|android|avantgo|blackberry|benq|cell|cricket|docomo|elaine|htc|iemobile|iphone|ipad|ipaq|ipod|j2me|java|midp|mini|mmp|mobi|motorola|nec-|nokia|palm|panasonic|philips|phone|playbook|sagem|sharp|sie-|silk|smartphone|sony|symbian|t-mobile|telus|up\.browser|up\.link|vodafone|wap|webos|wireless|xda|xoom|zte" [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ http://m.example.com/ [L,R=302]
How about:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "alcatel|amoi|android|avantgo|blackberry|benq|cell|cricket|docomo|elaine|htc|iemobile|iphone|ipad|ipaq|ipod|j2me|java|midp|mini|mmp|mobi|motorola|nec-|nokia|palm|panasonic|philips|phone|playbook|sagem|sharp|sie-|silk|smartphone|sony|symbian|t-mobile|telus|up\.browser|up\.link|vodafone|wap|webos|wireless|xda|xoom|zte" [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://m.%2/ [L,R=302]