We have a GoDaddy hosting. Within public_html we have a number of folders, each for a different site.
The main site (mysite.com) should normally be in the public_html but we moved them to public_html/mysite. We had an htaccess file to handle this change.
mysite.com is a slim (PHP) site. Within its public folder is another htaccess file that redirects to the public subfolder.
We tried to redirect mysite to a different web address and something got broken. Now if I go to mysite.com it shows Forbidden. Also, the FTP no longer works. When I try to connect with Filezilla I get
Connection attempt failed with "EAI_NONAME - Neither nodename nor servname provided, or not known".
This is because I try to connect to ftp.mysite.com. If I change that to an IP it does work. But clearly something is off with mysite.com.
The current htaccess within public_html/mysite is as follows:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?mysite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(?!public)(.*)$ /public/$1 [L]
Any ideas on how can I get this to work again? I think the problem is that the domain is pointing to the root of the public_html folder instead of public_html/mysite but no idea how to fix this.
UPDATE
We have an htaccess file in the public_html folder
RewriteOptions inherit
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?mysite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(?!mysite)(.*)$ /mysite/$1 [L]
If I remove it, all subdomains work but mysite.com shows Forbidden. If I enable the file, then every single subdomain, including mysite.com shows Internal Server Error.
You may have this .htaccess in site root:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?mysite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(?!mysite/)(.*)$ mysite/$1 [L,NC]
You should remove RewriteOptions inherit directive as that is not serving any purpose here.
Also note some minor fixes in your rewrite rule.
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I would like to allow only my IP to my website (\httpdocs) and redirect all other requests to another folder (\httpdocs\folder). How and can this be achieved through .htaccess?
Currently I have redirect my domain to this folder, where the 'under construction ' page is, through plesk.
Try the following in your root .htaccess file. 123.123.123.123 is the IP address to allow. I assume /httpdocs is the document root on your filesystem and is not a public URL.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REMOATE_ADDR} !=123.123.123.123
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/folder [NC]
RewriteRule .* /folder [R=302,L]
However, you should redirect to the actual "under construction" page, rather than just the "folder" that contains it.
Also, if this is "temporary maintenance" then consider implementing a 503 Service Unavailable instead:
https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/55635/how-to-set-restrictions-on-my-website/55659#55659
I'm the admin of an apache server (on a hosting package that allows me to host multiple domains), I've got one domain in public_html (let's call it www.ROOTwebsite.com) and 9 other domains hosted in a folder in the same directory level as the public_html, called DOMAINS.
So the structure is:
-DOMAINS/site1.com/
/site2.com/ ... etc
-public_html
I'm using '/' in the beginning of all relative paths in wamp for site1.com (for example /menu.php) and it works fine, but when I upload to DOMAINS/site1.com/ it messes up the site because it obviously is looking at the public_html directory as the ROOT.
I've used a number of combinations on the following in the .htaccess file, but I can't figure out which is the right syntax to change the ROOT to a directory sitting NEXT to public_html, not under it as usual:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.ROOTwebsite.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ROOTwebsite.gr$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !DOMAINS/site1.com/
RewriteRule (.*) /DOMAINS/site1.com/$1 [L]
I wish to change the root directory for site1.com so that it also works with the '/', without affecting the public_html website.
Can anyone see the problem with the code above?
You cannot redefine the document root via .htaccess. You have to create different vhosts for the domains that then can have separate document roots.
The closest I have come to redefine a document root via .htaccess is the following (not exactly what you are asking, because in my example, site1.com is a subdir of the main document root, but this would achieve what you want, with the caveat below).
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^site1.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule !^site1.com/ /site1.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NC]
this will effectively redirect all site1.com to the site1.com subdirectory.
[caveat] The only problem I could not solve is how to redirect an url that goes directly to the subdirectory such as http://site1.com/site1.com/index.html to http://site1.com/index.html
I hope this question is not redundant, but I could not find any answer to the exact question I am asking.
I own a multiple site shared hosting plan on a Linux server.
The hosting plan refers to a domain that we can call www.domain1.com
Every other domain is hosted as a subdir of the main domain. so for example domain2.com will be hosted like: www.domain1.com/domain2.com/
It could be reached using that path or using www.domain2.com directly.
I want to disable the access to domain2.com as subfolder of domain1.com.
I suppose I need to put a .htaccess file in every subfolder of domain1.com which is hosting a website. Am I correct? What do I have to put in the .htaccess file?
thank you in advance,
Max
Put these rules in the htaccess file in domain1's document root (the parent folder):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain1\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(domain2\.com|domain3\.com)/ - [L,F]
Where the domain2\.com etc are the subfolders that you don't want to be able to have direct access.
However, if you have rewrite rules in each of those subfolders, then you do need to add rules in each of the subfolders:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain1\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule - ^ [L,F]
The F flag will cause the request to return a 403 Forbidden.
I'm trying to redirect my subdomain to a flder. I think I have the .htaccess code from another post here. Something like:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^clients\.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^ http://example.com/clients/root/app%{REQUEST_URI} [L,P]
What DNS settings should I set up for the clients. subdomain to tie it in with the .htaccess.
You need to create a CNAME to point clients.example.com to the same server as example.com. Then you need to make sure your webserver is setup to serve the clients.example.com in the same root as example.com.
Of, you can simply setup clients.example.com's vhost to point to the /clients/root/app/ folder instead. There's a directive called DocumentRoot that you'd use to point a vhost to a where it's root folder is.
In the case of the first instance, where both the main domain and subdomain point to the same root, you don't need to use the P flag:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^clients\.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^ /clients/root/app%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
Is good enough and circumvents the need to go through mod_proxy.
I am having a problem making a sub directory act as the public_html for my main domain, and getting a solution that works with that domains sub directories too.
Background
My hosting allows me to host multiple sites, which are all working great. I have set up a subfolder under my ~/public_html/ directory called /domains/, where I create a folder for each separate website. The folder structure on my server looks something like this:
public_html
domains
websiteone
websitetwo
websitethree
...
This keeps my sites nice and tidy. The only issue was getting my "main domain" to fit into this system. It seems my main domain, is somehow tied to my account (or to Apache, or something), so I can't change the "document root" of this domain. I can define the document roots for any other domains ("Addon Domains") that I add in cPanel no problem. But the main domain is different.
The problem
I was told to edit the .htaccess file, to redirect the main domain to a subdirectory. This seemed to work great, and my site works fine on it's home/index page.
The problem I'm having is that if I try to navigate my browser to say the images folder (just for example) of my main site, like this:
www.yourmaindomain.com/images/
then it seems to ignore the redirect and shows the entire server directory in the url, like this:
www.yourmaindomain.com/domains/yourmaindomain/images/
It still actually shows the correct "Index of /images" page, and shows the list of all my images. It's just the "pretty" URL that's the problem.
Example of my .htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?yourmaindomain.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/domains/yourmaindomain/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /domains/yourmaindomain/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?yourmaindomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ domains/yourmaindomain/index.html [L]
Does this htaccess file look correct? I just need to make it so my main domain behaves like an addon domain, and it's subdirectories adhere to the redirect rules.
Don't use mod_rewrite for that, use virtual hosts for that. I won't explain that here in detail, you'll find all the necessary information at the above link. (Hint: You'll need the name-based ones probably.)
You probably want to move your stuff out of ~/public_html/ to some more generic place like /var/www/ or /srv/www.
Besides that: Don't use .htaccess files on production.
I have it organized the same way yo do. Had the same issue with my main domain.
This .htaccess works for me and even solves the ugly URL thing.
# .htaccess main domain to subdirectory redirect
RewriteEngine on
# Change example.com to be your main domain.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com$
# Change 'subdirectory' to be the directory you will use for your main domain.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdirectory/
# Don't change the following two lines.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# Change 'subdirectory' to be the directory you will use for your main domain.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdirectory/$1
# Change example.com to be your main domain again.
# Change 'subdirectory' to be the directory you will use for your main domain
# followed by / then the main file for your site, index.php, index.html, etc.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ subdirectory/ [L]