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douvel
douvel

Reputation: 87

Redirect specific URL to another URL on another subdomain

I have 5 URLs on a subdomain website http://subdomain.example.com, and I want them to redirect to 5 other URLs on my main website, https://www.example.com/.

Important: URLs do NOT have the same structure!

Example:

  1. http://subdomain.example.com/url1 should redirect to https://www.example.com/ipsum

  2. http://subdomain.example.com/url2 should redirect to https://www.example.com/lorem

  3. etc.

How can I handle that?

UPDATE:

There is a play folder (name of the subdomain) which contains the subdomain website files and a htdocs folder which contains the www website files.

Here is the .htaccess file in my play folder:

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

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3994

Answers (2)

Learner
Learner

Reputation: 13

Try this...

Redirect 301 http://subdomain.example.com/url1 https://www.example.com/ipsum
Redirect 301 http://subdomain.example.com/url2 https://www.example.com/lorem

Upvotes: 0

MrWhite
MrWhite

Reputation: 45829

Since the subdomain has it's own .htaccess file, you don't need to specify the hostname as part of the redirect. And since you already have mod_rewrite directives in the subdomain's .htaccess file, you should also use mod_rewrite for these redirects (to avoid conflicts). Otherwise, you'll need to specify these redirects one-by-one.

Try the following at the top of your subdomain's /play/.htaccess file. Note that this needs to go before the existing directives in the file.

# Specific redirects
RewriteRule ^url1$ https://www.example.com/ipsum [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^url2$ https://www.example.com/lorem [R=302,L]

The above would match a request for http://subdomain.example.com/url1 and redirect accordingly, etc.

Note that the RewriteRule pattern (regular expression) does not start with a slash when used in a per-directory (.htaccess) context.

Note that these are 302 (temporary) redirects. Change them to 301 (permanent) - if that is the intention - only once you have confirmed they are working OK (to avoid caching issues).

Upvotes: 2

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