Use htaccess to rewrite subdomain files to a folder - .htaccess

I need to rewrite a files on subdomain to files stored in the folder with name of the subdomain. Only files that start with sitemap should be rewritten. So, if the requests look like this:
http://demo.domain.com/sitemap.xml
http://demo.domain.com/sitemap_more.xml
http://test.domain.com/sitemap.xml
http://test.domain.com/sitemap_alpha.xml
These should rewrite to files:
/content/sitemaps/demo/sitemap.xml
/content/sitemaps/demo/sitemap_more.xml
/content/sitemaps/test/sitemap.xml
/content/sitemaps/test/sitemap_alpha.xml
So, subdomain name is used as a folder in the rewrite-to-path. This should be rewriting NOT redirecting. Also, it would be good to have rules that will work with any domain without need to change domain name everytime.

You can match the subdomain with a condition, then rewrite it with the rule :
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.domain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/content/sitemaps/%1/$1 [L]
Maybe you want to add a filter on .xml
Add :
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.xml
Edit
For file beginning with sitemap :
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} sitemap.*\..+$
This will match any string that finish with sitemap. and end. => this is a filename not an inner match of directory.

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.htaccess subdomain Rewrite rule is not working

I am making a website builder an I would like to make urls prettier.
The url would be for example:
https://ccc-bb.example.com => https://example.com/project/show/ccc/bb
This is my .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
# prevents files starting with dot to be viewed by browser
RewriteRule /\.|^\.(?!well-known/) - [F]
# front controller
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\-(.*)$ https://example.com/project/show/$1/$2 [L]
When I use above (https://ccc-bb.example.com) it sends me to the subdomain empty folder. The folder has only the .htaccess file.
What am I missing? I've never edited an .htaccess file and Google didn't help me (or I don't know what should I looking for).
Your first rule for dotfiles is okay but would be better the other way around, since the second part can only match the start, but the first can only match in subdirectories.
RewriteRule ^\.(?!well-known/)|/\. - [F]
Your other rule's problem is that you are expecting it to match the subdomain. RewriteRules do not operate on the entire string you see in your browser's address bar, only the path part, and in .htaccess they see even less as the leading directory is stripped off, too. To access the info you want, use a RewriteCond:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^-]++)-([^-.]++)\.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^(?!project/show/).* project/show/%1/%2/$0 [L,DPI]
(You don't need to include \.example\.com$ if your main domain contains no hyphens.)

htaccess rewrite being overwritten

I have the following htaccess file in the root of my site to redirect a directory 'MyDirectory' to another URL (to stop google indexing both sites)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^myurl\.co\.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.myurl\.co\.uk$
RewriteRule ^mydirectory\/(.*)$$ "http\:\/\/www\.redirectURL\.com/" [R=301,NC]
I then have another htaccess file in the 'MyDirectory' directory above which handles the URL and query string in a user friendly way:
RewriteRule ^Answers/(.+)$ Answers.php?articleName=$1 [QSA]
However, when i have the ReWriteRule ^Answers... section in my other htaccess it stops the redirect in the root of my site from working.
Any suggestions why the ^Answers/... rewrite is overwritting my redirect to www.redirectURL.com.
Thanks
.htaccess is per directory directive and for any URI path it current directory's .htaccess is processed first. If no .htaccess is found then it starts going 1 level up the directory tree until it finds one. It processes DocumentRoot/.htaccess in the end.
In your case since you have a /MyDirectory/.htaccess therefore all the directives are read from that file only thus overriding all the rules of DocumentRoot/.htaccess.
However you can add this line after RewriteEngine On in /MyDirectory/.htaccess
RewriteOptions inherit
This will process parent .htaccess after completing current one.

Rewrite folder's name using htaccess

I am wondering wether it's possible to use .htaccess to rewrite a folder name. What I mean is this.
Lets say I have a url like:
www.example.org/anyname/page.php
Now I want to rewrite the url to (for example)
www.example.org/folder1/page.php
The folder1 is an existing folder on my webspace.
important: the "anyname" is not a folder rather just a name!
Ok here is a step by step plan:
User types www.site.com/anyname/login.php.
The url should rewrite and not redirect the url to www.site.com/folder1/login.php
This means that "anyname" is just a name and not a directory. All the code should just come from folder1. Acutally "anyname" should just be an alias for folder1. I can't just rename folder1 to "anyname". Therefore I would just rewrite folder1 to "anyname".
Try adding these rules to the htaccess file in your document root:
Options -Multiviews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/.]+)\.php /folder1/$2.php [L]

.htaccess rewrite from subdirectory

Any help with this would really be appreciated.
I am setting up 301 redirects in a .htaccess file to redirect hundreds of old urls to the latest live pages.
My .htaccess file is currently located in the root of the domain and looks something like this:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^pName=product-one$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^pName=product-two$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^pName=completely-different-name$
RewriteRule ^catalog/product_info.php$ http://www.mydomain.com/new-product-name-p-123.html? [R=301,L]
While researching for answers on how to bulk redirect to one url using .htaccess, I read that it would wise to change the location of the .htaccess file and place it in the specific directories to which it apply's, so requests to other directories won't even these rules.
So I have placed the .htaccess file in the specific sub directory, which is catalog, but the redirect no longer works. What am I missing here? I want the rules for the urls to be redirected to be placed in the .htaccess file inside the catalog folder so all those rewrite rules wont be loaded each time the root .htaccess is loaded.
I would suggest you change your redirect 301 line to contain the path directly to you catalog folder of OSCommerce.
So instead of using
RewriteRule ^catalog/product_info.php$ http://www.mydomain.com/new-product-name-p-123.html? [R=301,L]
use e.g.:
Redirect 301 /website/catalog http://www.mydomain.com/page2.htm
or
Redirect 301 /catalog http://www.mydomain.com/page2.htm
Option 1) is if your catalog is located at http://youdDomain.com/website/catalog/ .
If it is located at http://youdDomain.com/website/aaa/catalog/ you would use:
Redirect 301 /website/aaa/catalog http://www.mydomain.com/page2.htm
I tested this in my own webserver - hope it helps.
When you put the .htaccess in a subdirectory, you must adjust the RewriteRule pattern accordingly. mod_rewrite strips the directory prefix, where the .htaccess file is located, see RewriteRule - What is matched?.
You must change the rule to
RewriteRule ^product_info.php$ ...
If you have lots of URL paths to rewrite, you might also want to look into RewriteMap.

What should I write in .htaccess file to rewrite this url?

I have a server parked on xyz.com. I have Wordpress installed on xyz.com/ and xyz.com/blog. I have created a new directory xyz.com/mamba.
In xyz.com/mamba. I want what that if user visits xyz.com/mamba/hello then the url should be rewritten to xyz.com/mamba/index.php?message=hello.
What should I write in .htaccess file in xyz.com/mamba/ directory?
Try:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /mamba/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?message=$1 [L]
The first line turns on the rewrite engine for the /mamba/ directory. Without doing this, the rules won't get applied (and the rules in the parent directory gets applied instead). The RewriteBase tells the rules here that any relative URI in the target should have /mamba/ as a base URI. The 2 conditions say that the request must not point to an existing file or directory, and the rule rewrites the request and puts it in the message query string parameter for index.php.

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