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Rick Roy
Rick Roy

Reputation: 1738

Wild card URL rewrite of subdomain to subdirectory

I am in a situation where an user can create his blog in a subdomain.

Users will create blogs and enter the address he wants like say,

abcd.domain.com Then my php code creates a directory called abcd.

To view the blog user will type in abcd.domain.com in his browser and I want a .htaccess code which will rewrite the url and open the files inside the domain.com/abcd But for the user the url in the browser should stay abcd.domain.com

Currently I am trying this code

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^test\.domain\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^test/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /test/$1 [L,QSA]

But this gives me 404 even though I have a file test.html inside the test folder and trying to view that page.

Also in this situation I will have to manually make change to the .htaccess file for URL rewrite. What I want to know is if it is possible to have a wild card subdomain redirect to the respective directory.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 249

Answers (2)

Panama Jack
Panama Jack

Reputation: 24478

Note that it takes more than a rewrite rule to have wildcard subdomains. Just fyi.

You need to have created a wildcard DNS record for subdomains and also tell apache to use any subdomain request by having a ServerAlias of *.domain.com in the apache config.

Then try your rule this way and see if it works for you. 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^((?!www).+)\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %1::%{REQUEST_URI} !^(.*?)::/\1/?
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /%1/$1 [L,QSA]

Upvotes: 1

Croises
Croises

Reputation: 18671

You can use:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^test\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/test/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /test/$1 [L,QSA]

REQUEST_URI with leading /.

With wild card subdomain:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+)\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/%1/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /%1/$1 [L,QSA]

Upvotes: 2

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