Re: - customize .htaccess

[Rich Bowen <rbowen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/16/2014 04:13 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote:

hi guys,

I would like to customize .htaccess
my scenario should be:

- domain.com
- sub.domain.com
- sub2.domain.com

for istances, my root directory is /var/www/domain/
into this would to insert about 2 new directories, called sub and sub2

when a guest will digit sub.domain.com or sub2.domain.com will want
reindirize to correctly subdir (sub or sub2)

this is my .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
                RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   ^sub\.domain\.com$ [NC]
                RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/webdav/
                RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/sub/
                RewriteRule   ^/(.*)$ /sub/$1  [R=301,L]


when I try to see sub.domain.com the link return to sub.domain.com/sub/
it works correctly but I would like to see only sub.domain.com/ without
sub directory

how can I personalize it in the .htaccess?
thanks in advance

There's several possible answers to your question.

The simplest one is that you're using a [R] flag on your rule, which means Redirect. Redirect means "change the URL in the browser", which is apparently the opposite of what you want. Changing the R=301 to a PT *might* do what you want.

The other answer is that using .htaccess files and rewrite rules for virtual hosting is very error-prone, for a variety of reasons.

There's an entire document on virtualhosts with rewrite, at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/vhosts.html  Please note what it says at the top of that document:

mod_rewrite is not the best way to configure virtual hosts. You should first consider the alternatives before resorting to mod_rewrite. See also the "how to avoid mod_rewrite document.

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