My webhost automatically forwards all requests to *.mydomain.com to the toplevel domain mydomain.com.
I wanted to map any subdomain to a specific folder on my toplevel domain. i.e. sub.example.com must be mapped to example.com/someFolder (without change in the address bar).
After digging around on the net, I came up with this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?[^.]+\.example\.com.*$
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/myfolder/$1 [L]
This seems to work well, except for one problem: When I go to the URL sub.example.com, the URL in the address bar changes to example.com/myfolder . But, when I do something like sub.example.com/login - this maps to "example.com/sub/login" properly without the change in the address bar. Any help greatly appreciated!
only small change needed:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?[^.]+\.example\.com.*$
RewriteRule (.*) myfolder/$1 [L]
stripped out http:// at the rule which tells Apache to send a Redirect header instead of proper server-side rewrite.
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I have changed the A record for domainname.com to point to the IP address of subdomain.domainname.com. That's working.
Now, I'd like to change the htaccess so that any requests made to domainname.com are redirected to subdomain.domainname.com/subdirectory
Is this possible? And if so, what's the command please?
You'd be better off using Name based Virtual hosts, but if you want to use a .htaccess file something along the following lines will do the trick:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domainname.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdirectory
RewriteRule .* /subdirectory%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
Using htaccess Rewrite, I want my url http://*.phoneataxi.com/ (where * is a wildcard, excluding 'www') to show in the address bar as is but get information from http://*.phoneataxi.com/test.php?c=*.
I have tried so many different things but nothing is doing exactly what I need. Most examples are redirecting the subdomain to the '/test.php' file in the address bar which I don't want to do.
I'm trying not to have to create individial subdomains and subdomain folders within my webroot.
Ideas?
I use this htaccess file to make Apache act as a proxy for another host:
IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ghost\.pileborg\.se$
RewriteRule (.*) http://vps.pileborg.se/ghost/$1 [P]
</IfModule>
It causes all access to http://ghost.pileborg.se/ to be "redirected" to http://vps.pileborg.se/ghost/.
UPDATE (2020)
Some of the answers regarding this topic is very old and no longer work as expected.
After searching for hours on something that actually works, this is what I came up with; edit as you see fit:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ([a-z0-9]+)\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [E=BASE:%1]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{ENV:BASE}/index.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{ENV:BASE}/index.php [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{ENV:BASE}/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{ENV:BASE}/index.html [L,NC,QSA]
Breakdown
Make sure that the rewrite module is installed and enabled on your host
first we turn the rewrite engine on and set the path-base
then isolate the subdomain - any letters/numbers before the first dot
set a variable in this runtime environment that contains the subdomain
check if the subdomain folder and index-file exists
if it does exist -then use that file as the request-handler (no redirect)
if it does not exist then the request carries on normally
Flags
The flags used here are explained here, but the ones used above are quite simple:
[L] Last rule, ignore the rest
[NC] No Case, no uppercase/lowercase restrictions
[QSA] I remember this as "Query String Attach" :D
I've got the following 301 redirect in my .htaccess
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^old-site\.com,$ http://www.new-site.com/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]
If i visit
old-site.com
I am redirected correctly.
However, if I visit www.old-site.com, then it doesn't work.
Is there a way of effectively ignoring the www
Edit
There are several entries like this...
for example:
www.old-site.com/page-a-242.html to www.new-site.com/page-a
RewriteRule ignores the domain, so your first rule could be just
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.new-site.com/? [R,L]
For the other specific mappings you might use RewriteMap. See txt: Plain text maps for details on how to use it.
The drawback with RewriteMap is, that it can only be used in the main server config or in a virtual host environment.
How can I use htaccess to always ADD a directory immediately after the domain name?
So for example, change requests for
http://domain.com/path-to/file.php
to
http://domain.com/added-directory/path-to/file.php
The context here is that i am migrating a site to a new server, and the domain name is not yet pointed to the new server. But the hosting company provides me with a "temporary url" based on the Shared IP and my account username, so http://216.172.172.211/~myusername/ , but all the paths in all the html are doc-root relative, like /images/logo.png, which translates to http://216.172.172.211/images/logo.png which is wrong. I need it to be http://216.172.172.211/~myusername/images/logo.png .
try adding these rules to the htaccess file in your document root:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/~myusername
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /~myusername/$1 [L]
If you want to redirect so that URLs show the ~myusername part in the URL address bar, add an R flag to the square brackets:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /~myusername/$1 [L,R=301]
This worked for me perfectly
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/~gye
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/gye/$1 [R=301,L]
If an URL comes without the /XYZ
Add https:// at the beginning and /gye/ after the domain.
Testing here really helped: https://htaccess.madewithlove.be/
I am trying to force HTTPS on a domain. It must be done using a method that works by domain name and not port number (due to host structure/setup).
My closest attempt was:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com$
RewriteRule ^.*$ https://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
This works when typing "mydomain.com" into the address bar, automatically redirecting to "https://mydomain.com" but when I type "www.mydomain.com" it does not work. I assume it is a syntax issue as I am very new to htaccess and have spent about 4 hours trying to create a solution from other's code.
Any chance of a pointer?
To make the setup a little more understandable.
/public_html/ - All files in this folder relate to www.mydomain.com
/public_html/subfolder - These folders contain files also relating to mydomain.com
/public_html/subdomain - These folders contain files relating to www.myotherdomain.com
My other domains are subdomains of mydomain.com for to be listed in the cpanel on the host. For example: subdomain.mydomain.com is the same as www.myotherdomain.com.
Hopefully that clears up the structure.
Your redirect happens whenever a request is made to the exact domain mydomain.com (that's what the RewriteCond is testing for). It doesn't apply to any other domains and doesn't detect HTTPS. Use this instead:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mydomain.com$
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]