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
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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.
I've developed a website using Yii framework and now I need to move it to hostgator cheap hosting for a single site. It looks like it expects that the website must be placed into the root folder but my website has a www folder with index.php and resource files like js,css,images,etc. Also this folder contains a file htaccess with following content:
RewriteEngine on
# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php
But I suppose I have to add another htaccess into the root folder so all requests will redirect to the www folder. (I did it and tried different combinations of the rewrite rules but they didn't work properly). I'm guessing I should remove htaccess from the www folder and leave only one in the root folder.
Sorry guys, I always have problems with htaccess even after reading documentation.
Thanks in advance.
I think that you can configure your domain as an addon domain with the document root set in www as you prefer.
Of course I am presuming that you have cPanel on Hostgator.
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.
On shared web-hosting my software supports multiple domains (all domains point to the same public_html root directory). Each domain has it's own gallery (in the gallery directory). Since multiple domains can not have their own resources (e.g. images) in the same directory for all sites I have root directories that match each HTTP host name. Here is what the directory structure looks like...
/public_html/
/public_html/.htaccess
/public_html/gallery/
/public_html/www.example1.com/gallery/topic_x/image.png
/public_html/www.example2.com/gallery/topic_y/image.jpg
/public_html/www.example3.com/gallery/topic_z/image.gif
A request to...
http://www.example1.com/gallery/topic_x/image.png
...needs to be rewritten to...
/public_html/www.example1.com/gallery/topic_x/image.png
This needs to be done using the .htaccess file as is noted above, there are no .htaccess files in the HTTP Host matching directories (/public_html/www.example1.com/.htaccess does not exist).
I have been trying with numerous modifications of the following...
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} !200
RewriteRule ^(gallery)(/.+\.(gif|jpg|png))$ %{HTTP_HOST}$1$2 [L,NC]
...without success.
This one works for me:
RewriteRule ^(gallery/.+\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png))$ /%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,NC]
If you want -- you can add extra check to rewrite only if such final image is present (although I have not tested this):
RewriteCond {%DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 -f
RewriteRule ^(gallery/.+\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png))$ /%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,NC]
But even your pattern should work (at least it passes the test) -- maybe .htaccess is not enabled .. or you forgot to activate rewrite engine (RewriteEngine On)?
I would also recommend adding this line before (or after) activating engine:
Options +FollowSymLinks
or
Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Some shared hosting may only work with 2nd, for some 1st is enough.