.htaccess redirect domain to subdirectory without changing URL
You can use this rule:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain2\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule !^subdir/ /subdir%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NC]
This will prefix every request for domain2.com
with /subdir
if it is not already there.
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Shark5060
Updated on February 16, 2022Comments
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Shark5060 about 2 years
I have the following setup: -> domain1.com is my main domain and also document root -> domain2.com is another domain which is registered as an alias domain (means it does exactly the same as domain1.com), I have multiple of those domains.
when I now want to redirect that domain to something I usually use this to redirect the domain to something else (like an external website):
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain2.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*) http://somewiredisp.com/user/bla/$1 [L,R]
this is usually used if I register a domain for someone who needs a nice url for their forums or whatever. Works like a charm - the only "problem" would be that the address bar in the browser changes, but I've read that there would be no way to do that with external URLs, and since no one ever complained about it I am fine with it.
However, now I would like to link some url to a subdirectory WITHOUT the url changing in the address bar.
domain2.com -> domain1.com/subdir (or domain2.com/subdir - that doesn't matter, since it's an alias domain).
my current approach would be
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain2.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*) http://domain1.com/subdir/ [P]
which doesn't work (Error 404) - if I call domain1.com/subdir/ directly if works obviously.
I also tried several variations of
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://domain2.com/subdir/ [P] RewriteRule ^(.*) /subdir/ [P] RewriteRule ^(.*) http://domain1.com/subdir/index.html [P]
all with the same result.
maybe it's just a simple mistake but I am currently clueless :/
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anubhava over 9 yearsThis should work irrespective of
http
orhttps
. Make surehttps
URL is also going to same htaccess -
Adrian Rodriguez over 7 yearsIt works for me only if there is a slash. eg domain.com/demo/ but without slash domain.com/demo, I got domain.com/domain.com/demo/ Any idea?
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anubhava over 7 yearsComments are not good section for answering but you can keep a trailing slash fix rule before this rule.
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user3035649 about 5 yearsWhat if it works/redirects perfectly EXCEPT you don't want the "subdir" text showing in the URL in the address bar? Any way to do that?
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anubhava about 5 yearsThis rule doesn't do any redirect so
subdir
won't show in browser after rewrite.