Need special .htaccess

[God-o-Sex]

Hi all!

I am needing some kind of special .htaccess file for my hosting service that determines the location I came from and then redirects it to a certain directory.

Let's say a user types in:

http://test.mydomain.com

Now the .htaccess should automatically forward that URL to:

http://www.mydomain.com/test

I know that there are some out there, but I couldn't find it yet. Hope you can help me with that.

Thanks a lot.

[spanky]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html

cheers

[God-o-Sex]

Thank you Spanky.

Just wondering if "Path-forwarding" will also work with that. So:

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

will forward to:

http://mydomain.com/here

[spanky]

yeah, you ought to be able to get it as long as you get the right regular expression in the rewrite rules.

cheers

[NetRodent]

If you have access to your httpd.conf file, you can do what you want very simply. Here's a very simple pair of virtual host record that will redirect http://anything.domain.com/ to http://www.domain.com/here


<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias *.domain.com
Redirect / http://www.domain.com/here
ErrorLog /logs/domain.com-error_log
CustomLog /logs/domain.com-access_log CustomLog
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
ServerName www.domain.com
DocumentRoot /webdata/domain.com
ErrorLog /logs/domain.com-error_log
CustomLog /logs/domain.com-access_log CustomLog
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.domain.com/
</VirtualHost>

[JFPdude]

Why not just ask your host for a wildcard DNS entry. Works great and you don't have to mess with an .htaccess file

[mike503]

or you could write a perl or php script for it as well. there are many options

[foe]

Writting a perl/php script for that Is a pretty bad Idea Using wildcards in apache config is the accepted practice Is a lot faster and will be less buggy. But make sure if you have other subdomains you place


ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias *.domain.com
Redirect / http://www.domain.com/here
ErrorLog /logs/domain.com-error_log
CustomLog /logs/domain.com-access_log CustomLog


after them so apache redirects to the subdomains first.