.htaccess rewrite subdomain to directory

Question

Is it possible to use .htaccess to rewrite a sub domain to a directory?

Example:

• http://sub.domain.example/

shows the content of

• http://domain.example/subdomains/sub/

Answer 1

Try putting this in your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub.domain.example
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdomains/sub/$1 [L,NC,QSA]

For a more general rule (that works with any subdomain, not just sub) replace the last two lines with this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.domain\.example
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subdomains/%1/$1 [L,NC,QSA]

Answer 2

I'm not a mod_rewrite expert and often struggle with it, but I have done this on one of my sites. It might need other flags, etc., depending on your circumstances. I'm using this:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain\.example\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdomains/subdomain
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdomains/subdomain/$1 [L]

Any other rewrite rules for the rest of the site must go afterwards to prevent them from interfering with your subdomain rewrites.

Answer 3

You can use the following rule in .htaccess to rewrite a subdomain to a subfolder:

RewriteEngine On

 # If the host is "sub.domain.example"
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub.domain.example$ [NC]
 # Then rewrite any request to /folder
 RewriteRule ^((?!folder).*)$ /folder/$1 [NC,L]

Line-by-line explanation:

  RewriteEngine on

The line above tells the server to turn on the engine for rewriting URLs.

  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub.domain.example$ [NC]

This line is a condition for the RewriteRule where we match against the HTTP host using a regex pattern. The condition says that if the host is sub.domain.example then execute the rule.

 RewriteRule ^((?!folder).*)$ /folder/$1 [NC,L]

The rule matches http://sub.domain.example/foo and internally redirects it to http://sub.domain.example/folder/foo.

Replace sub.domain.example with your subdomain and folder with name of the folder you want to point your subdomain to.

Answer 4

I had the same problem, and found a detailed explanation in http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3163397.htm

My solution (the subdomains contents should be in a folder called sd_subdomain:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} subdomain\.domain\.example
RewriteCond $1 !^sd_
RewriteRule (.*) /sd_subdomain/$1 [L]

Answer 5

This redirects to the same folder to a subdomain:

.httaccess

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.domain\.example$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain\.example/subdomains/%1

Answer 6

Try to putting this .htaccess file in the subdomain folder:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(.*)?$ ./subdomains/sub/$1

It redirects to http://example.org/subdomains/sub/, when you only want it to show http://sub.example.org/.

Answer 7

Redirect subdomain directory:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.(archive\.example\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%2/%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Answer 8

For any sub domain request, use this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.band\.s\.example
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.band\.s\.example
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/([a-zA-Z0-9-z\-]+)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /%1/$1 [L]

Just make some folder same as sub domain name you need. Folder must be exist like this: domain.example/sub for sub.domain.example.

Answer 9

Edit file .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]