Hello!

I urgently need the following .htaccess file:

As my host doesn't automatically support the creating of subdomains, I want to setup a .htaccess file for that. He said, that he can enable for forwarding for *.mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com. Now I need a .htaccess file which regognizes the URL a visitor came from and forwards him to www.mydomain.com/directory.

So when a user types in:

http://whatever.mydomain.com

He gets redirected to:

http://www.mydomain.com/whatever

Would be great if anyone of you has this script.

Will this be possible too using .htaccess?

http://i.can.write.anything.here.mydomain.com

to

http://www.mydomain.com/here

???

Thanks a lot!!!

First of all you need to have DNS setup to resolve whatever.yourname.com.

Secondly you need mod_rewrite enabled on your Apache. Then you can do this:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?whatever\.yourname\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond $1 !whatever/
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /whatever/$1 [L]


and enjoy :)

Thanks masood!

My provider has set up the DNS that way:

*.mydomain.com goes to www.mydomain.com

So as I am not a .htaccess guru, how can I change your .htaccess file, so that it works for all subdomains?

You just have to change "whatever" to appropriate values and repeat the last three lines for each entry.

Oh my...

So that will result in a really big .htaccess file :(

Isn't there a possibility to set that up with a few lines for each subdomain?

If not, I'll :bawling:

OK, then you can try reading this "small" document:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html

and let me know as well ;)

:D

What about this one? It seems to be doing that what I want. Couldn't test it yet, as I still don't have the hosting account set up.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.[^.]+\.host\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.+) %{HTTP_HOST}$1 [C?]
RewriteRule ^www\.([^.]+)\.host\.com(.*) /home/$1$2