Redirecting to a subdomain from another domain without changing its URL

Question

I have a project where users can create their own profiles. And the profiles will have sub-domain URLs like robert.blogger.com. So if that user has some domain of his own like robert.com. Then I want every request for robert.com to redirect to robert.blogger.com without changing the URL.

The URL should show robert.com/home.html, robert.com/aboutus.html etc. but actually code should be run from robert.blogger.com/index.html, robert.com/aboutus.html etc.

Is this possible? If so, how can this be done?

possible duplicate of [Create subdomain per user](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1806313/create-subdomain-per-user), http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4116898/how-do-i-create-personal-sub-domain-programmatically-with-php, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12408582/virtual-subdomain-one-subdomain-per-user, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/586129/create-subdomains-on-the-fly-with-htaccess-php, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/183928/how-to-let-php-to-create-subdomain-automatically-for-each-user — Mike B, Dec 31 '13 at 13:52
@IamLitto They all talk about what you're asking for. You realize that the owner of robert.com is going to have to log into his DNS management tool and point his domain at your servers. There's no way for you to hijack his domain (for good reason). If you're unaware of all this you need to start by learning about the basics of DNS and apache configs. — Mike B, Dec 31 '13 at 14:07
@mike B hey.. man... this is not hijacking & all... I will get that authority to point his domain to my server. Just forget about all these things,.. please say how can I acheive this by coding or any other settings??? — IamLitto, Jan 02 '14 at 06:17

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 31 '13 at 13:55

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This is not done with php.

The best way to accomplish this is via an HTACCESS redirect. Alternatively this can be done via a DNS A record, but would require elevated access.

place a file named (.htaccess) in the root directory of the domain that contains the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule * subdomain.domain.com [L]

answered Dec 31 '13 at 13:55

iamien

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I have a server with dedicated IP. Can you please advice how to redirect some domain to this server using DNS A record?? – IamLitto Dec 31 '13 at 14:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 31 '13 at 14:03

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Not possible in php unless you use curl. You need to setup a wildcard DNS record to catch all subdomains and send them to you web server. Then you need to setup Apache to catch all named virtual hosts and send it to a directory.

answered Dec 31 '13 at 14:03

Njuguna Mureithi

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 31 '13 at 15:35

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I would just the header function. header("Location: http://"$user_name."blogger.com");

answered Dec 31 '13 at 15:35

Jonas Lindenskov Nielsen

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I do not want a redirection.. I want something other else..pls read the question once agin... – IamLitto Jan 02 '14 at 06:17

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 14 '15 at 16:38

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This will work

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domainname.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ([^.]+)\.domainname.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) user/user.php?username=%1
ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.php
IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

edited Apr 14 '15 at 16:38

Brian

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answered Jan 24 '15 at 13:23

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Redirecting to a subdomain from another domain without changing its URL

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