Background
I have a website that has several other alias domain names, in an effort to streamline and simplify I want all the domains to revert to the one domain name I now advertise -
Main name: www.explorerWorld.co.uk
Other names that load the same content but retain their own address:
www.exploreElsewhere.co.uk
www.exploitedexplodedexplorers.co.uk
what I have is that across the internet there are links in peoples blogs and elsewhere that go to specific pages on my site, but these will be under these different domains.
I have changed the domain Alises under cPanel and this works, for the base address only, but a domain for example www.exploreElsewhere.co.uk/trees.php does not redirect.
Question
I would like these pages to still work but to redirect to the main site -- www.explorerWorld.co.uk -- * but preserving their file path*
so: www.exploreElsewhere.co.uk/plants/trees.php gets seemlessly changed to www.explorerWorld.co.uk/plants/trees.php
My htaccess so far:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^exploreWorlds\.co\.uk$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.exploreWorlds.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
But this seems to work in an endlessly repeating loop, How can I improve this htaccess ?
I have also looked here but this was not very helpful:
.htaccess change domain but keep path
I have found a solution to this problem was to use %{REQUEST_URI} which is the path given to the server.
(with a pointer from Arco444)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?exploreworlds\.co\.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.exploreworlds.co.uk/%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
This successfully rewrites the domain part of the URL to force alias URL links to be redirected to my base website address + path
You have a mistake in your RewriteCond. Try
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.exploreWorlds\.co\.uk$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.exploreWorlds.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
instead, or remove the tilda from your original snippet
Related
tried to search a lot in StackOverflow but nothing solved my problem.
I got a domain in a server (let's call it mydomain.com) and a subdomain called for example mydomain.com/subdomain. I have configured my DNS to have a redirect, so when I write www.subdomain.com it brings me to www.mydomain.com/subdomain.
Is there a way (via DNS, CNAME, .htaccess, anything else?) to perform my redirection but having my browser still displaying www.subdomain.com in the URL bar?
Sorry for bad english
Put the following code in root .htaccess file :
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mydomain.com$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdomain/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdomain/$1 [L,NE]
Update : as per javidazac comment , i should explain that to questioner , that he means sub directory not subdomain , but i will consider that you have sub directory called subdomain
I am new to htaccess configuration but I have been reading and researching for awhile.
I have a mobile subdomain which I wish to fetch images located on my main domain. I am unsure as how to get it to work. My current code is:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^m\.\.website\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^/avatar/(.*)$ http://www.website.com/avatar/$1 [P]
The image directory looks like this:
/avatar/thumbnail/image.jpg
/avatar/preview/image.jpg
/avatar/full/image.jpg
However, when I try to access m.website.com the images do not load.
Can anyone tell me what I am missing.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Remove leading slash from your rule and also take out extra DOT from host name condition:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^m\.website\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(avatar/.*)$ http://www.website.com/$1 [P,L]
This assumes you have mod_proxy enabled and working.
We're in the process of switching our current site from a multiple domain configuration into a single domain, multiple folder format. i.e.
.co.uk/<uri> is becoming .com/en-gb/<uri>
.com/<uri> is becoming .com/en-us/<uri>
I'm hoping that I'll be able to handle this via a couple of well-crafted .htaccess rules, but I'm not sure of code I'm going to need to achieve this. Can you help?
(PS, I've left the actual domain blank, as we only need to test for the TDL, not the entire domain - although whatever the original domain was need to stay the same, with only the TLD changing - i.e. whatever.co.uk would redirect to whatever.com/en-gb/, whatever2.co.uk would redirect to whatever2.com/en-gb/, and whatever.com would redirect to whatever.com/en-us/)
add the following directives to your .htaccess:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (.+)\.co\.uk$
RewriteRule (.*) http://%1.com/en-gb/$1 [R=301,L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} \.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(en-us|en-gb)/
RewriteRule (.*) /en-us/$1 [R=301,L,QSA]
if you have so many domain TLDs, you maybe want to use RewriteMap to avoid duplicating the first rule for every TLD, RewriteMap will map TLD to Uri string (ex: .co.uk to en-gb),
I have multiple domains all pointing to the same website and depending on which domain you enter the website, will determine which categories will be selected.
For this to work I have to place any Mod_Rewrite code inside my
apache2/sites-available/primarydomain
file.
The website has the potential to host hundreds of domains so I need a system where I dont have to write a rule out for each domain eventuality.
I have seen this suggested online
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
but it doesnt work for me.
Does any regex guru out there know if this is even achievable?
Heres hoping :-)
Got a question about using mod_rewrite to redirect specific subdomains to use another domain. I am looking for the shortest possible way to do this without the need to create a separate rewrite rule for each of my domain names. I will be adding many new domain names (roughly 20-30 domains total).
So let's say my main domain name is example.com and I want to use that domain name for everything. So if any of my other domains are used, they will automatically be redirected to the main domain, preserving the subdomain prefix and the URL path.
Example:
test.example.org => test.example.com
test2.example.co.uk => test2.example.com
test3.example.net/hello/world.php => test3.example.com/hello/world.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.([a-zA-Z]+)\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1\.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
I am unsure if the above will work correctly or if it is proper syntax. But basically, I would like to have it match the subdomain prefix, then any domain name, and any TLD (.org, .info, .biz, .co.uk, .net, etc.). I would assume it would need to make sure that it is not the correct main domain (example.com) first to prevent a infinite redirect loop.
Also, is there a possibility to check if HTTPS is ON or OFF and set the redirect correctly? If not, I can always have HTTPS set to ON.
Sorry for this confusion, although I want to make sure I get this right the first time without needing to program each and every one of the domains into the .htaccess.
Thanks! :)
(.*) is greedy so you don't want to use that, and I assume that you don't want to recreate an infinite loop.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^..(s?)
RewriteRule ^ - [E=PROTO:http%1]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^\w+\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(\w+)\.\w+\..+ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) %{ENV:PROTO}://%1.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
That rule will not work because it will redirect any host ending with example.com back to example.com and you'll get a redirect loop. You need to change the regex to look like this, to match anything that doesn't end with .com:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.?([a-zA-Z]+)\.(?:(?!com).)*$ [NC]