On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Reese <howell.r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We're experiencing some difficulty that I'm not entirely sure of > the origin of. Most URLs to content in a subdomain link through > the subdomain, but a few are linking a subdirectory of the main > domain instead > > domain.ext/subdirectory/content.ext (the few) > subdomain.ext/content.ext (the many and preferred) > > So I wrote the below for inclusion in the main domain .htaccess > file, it's off the top of my head so I'm wondering if anyone sees > anything wrong with it and if yes, how it would be fixed (watch > for line wrap): > > RewriteEngine On > RewriteRule ^(www\.)?domain\.ext/subdomain/(.*)$ subdomain\.domain\.ext/$2 > [R=301,L] > > > Reese > > RewriteRules operate over the part of the URL after the host and before the query string, so you would be wanting to try out RewriteCond. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule , in particular the section labelled 'What is matched'. Cheers Tom PS: Rewrite rule problems generally get solved quicker if you try and write them yourself, turn on the RewriteLog and test them against some sample URLs. If it doesn't work, providing that information to the list will get you more/faster/more accurate responses. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx