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user3781239
user3781239

Reputation: 151

How to redirect a subdomain to a website directory

I have a main site hosted on Heroku and a Wordpress blog hosted on Bluehost. To get to the blog, a user types in blog.example.com and it works. However, how would I redirect the URL so that when the user types in blog.example.com the URL changes to example.com/blog?

I added these two commands into the .htaccess file and the site goes into a redirect loop:

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

This is what I have in the .htaccess file so far (Wordpress default):

     RewriteEngine on

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 41

Answers (1)

vico
vico

Reputation: 2142

You can't, This isn't a simple htaccess issue

Unless your Blog is hosted to example.com as well, or you OWN both DNS record

blog.example.com is a domain pointer, and example.com could be pointed to another different locations.

to rewrite all your URL to another domain, it has to be hosted there or else the DNS record will never hit the wordpress to begin with.

Incase you own both, You can point dns for blog.example.com to the same place as example.com then in wordpress site setting change your wordpress site url to example.com/blog

Note WORDPRESS is hosted on example.com domain

Upvotes: 1

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