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Dino
Dino

Reputation: 402

Subdomain redirect to a full URL and keeping original subdomain

So, to be more graphic at the beginning:

This is current link structure:

http://example.com/video-slug/wordpress-title-of-the-video-slug

I have a subdomain:

http://tv.example.com/

What I want to achieve is, when someone clicks on:

http://tv.example.com/wordpress-title-of-the-video-slug

It figures out that tv.example.com equals example.com/video and opens the the link:

http://example.com/video/wordpress-title-of-the-video-slug, but keeps the structure in location bar:

http://tv.example.com/wordpress-title-of-the-video-slug

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2939

Answers (3)

maigre
maigre

Reputation: 153

A more generic solution, that applies to your question. It allows any http://subdomain.example.com/ to serve the content located at http://example.com/subdomain/ while keeping the original URL (with subdomain).

The P option (for Proxy) serves that purpose (to keep the original URL in the address bar), and answers the question asked in accepted answer comments (i can't comment back tho..)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/%1/$1 [L,P]

for your specific case it would be

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^tv\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/video/$1 [L,P]

A drawback i am facing now is that PHP $_SERVER URI is set to the translated URL not the original one. But that is another issue :)

Upvotes: 2

Gmeister4
Gmeister4

Reputation: 755

I think this is an easier way using PHP: 

<?php 
//add some params
$_GET['param1'] = value1;
//the actual page you wish to redirect to
include "/var/www/page.php";

?>

Upvotes: 0

Terence Eden
Terence Eden

Reputation: 14324

You need a rewrite rule in your .htaccess file. From memory, something like this should work.

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/video/$1 [NC]

Placed in the tv subdomain.

Upvotes: 1

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