I am trying to get a subdomain to show to contents of another domain, with the ability to go to any area of the other domain i.e. all directories
So for example I would like my client to go to "sub.domain-one.com" or more specifically "sub.exampledomain.com/client_name". I would like this to then show the content of "domain-two.com", my development server, without the client knowing.
I would also if possible like to keep the base domain of "sub.domain-one.com" to stay on my live server so that I can keep a index.php on that server. But this is only an extra wish :)
My current code is
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(sub.)?domain-one.com/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(sub.)?domain-one.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://domain-two.com/$1 [P,NC]
This code seems to work to an extent (it will let me go to sub.domain-one.com but if I go to sub.domain-one.com/client_name it will redirect my browser url to domain-two.com/client_name
But I need it hidden :(
Thanks heaps in advanced
James
You need to use a ProxyPassReverse in order to rewrite redirects from the proxied site to the site that you are proxying from. Unfortunately, you can't do this in an htaccess file. In the server/vhost config, you'll need to create a virtual host for "sub.domtain-one.com"/"domain-one.com", then use ProxyPass:
ProxyPass / http://domain-two.com/
ProxyPassReverse / http://domain-two.com/
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After looking on the internet for about an hour, I didn't find the answer to my question. So I'm searching with the wrong keywords or what I want is not possible.
What I want:
I have multiple domains with different extensions, for example:
mydomain.be
mydomain.nl
Now what I want is that the mydomain.be is redirected to mydomain.nl. The solution for this I have found on the internet and shown below, with the need of .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.be$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mydomain.be$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.mydomain.nl/$1 [R=301,L]
With this code, when you type mydomain.be you will be redirect to mydomain.nl. But also the URL in the addressbar is changed to mydomain.nl. What I want is to keep the URL in the addressbar mydomain.be.
So, mydomain.be:
keep URL
show content of mydomain.nl
How To?
It is possible to get it done via mod_rewrite but make sure mod_proxy is enabled in your Apache's httpd.conf. Once that is done enable mod_rewrite and .htaccess through httpd.conf and then put this code in your .htaccess under DOCUMENT_ROOT directory:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?mydomain\.be$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.mydomain.nl%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NE,P]
Take note of flag P which is used for handling the proxy request.
Read more about flag: P in mod_rewrite
Another option without hassling with .htaccess would be to point both domains to the same document root or setting one domain as an alias for the other, depending on how you are able to configure your Apache. However, this has downsides:
If your content management system uses absolute URLs a user who clicks on mydomain.nl on a link will be directed to the mydomain.be domain (WordPress does this, as an example).
Search engines punish this behaviour by placing you further down on the search results. at least Google does, they have an interesting blog post about duplicate content. Not sure about competitors.
An example apache config could be:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mydomain.nl
ServerAlias mydomain.be
DocumentRoot /var/www/mydomain.nl/htdocs
</VirtualHost>
So I have my site, www.domain.com.
For a week or so I want to direct all traffic going direct to the site to subdomain.domain.com, a little promo page about an upcoming feature. I want visitors to then be able to continue to the site as normal though after they've read it, so a continue to www.domain.com/index.php link.
How can I do that with in the htaccess file? Everything I've tried so far messes up when clicking the continue link.
Thanks
with .htaccess you could use a 302 temporary redirect, but it would be for a whole sub folder as far as I know.
Another way would be to redirect with JS/server site language to the subdomain, create a cookie, then redirect back to www.domain.com/index.php .
the 302 redirect is explained here: How do I redirect my site using a .htaccess file?
You would need to have a .htaccess for the root folder point to your subdomain
Note that this is only possible if you enable mod_proxy in the Apache config of domain.com otherwise URL will change after redirect.
Enable mod_proxy, mod_rewrite and .htaccess through httpd.conf and then put this code in your .htaccess under DOCUMENT_ROOT directory:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://subdomain.domain.com/ [L,NC,P]
I've got to apache web servers running. One on port 80 and another on port 8077.
I'm wanting to try and redirect all the traffic through the port 80 version if possible.
What I'm ideally wanting is to be able to go to http://translate.example.com
and the traffic get directed to http://www.example.com:8077
I've already got a lot of mod_rewrite going on at the main port 80 server, but I'm not sure which of the servers needs configuration or whether both do.
I'm wanting to make sure that translate.example.com/img (or any other subdirectory) actually points to the 8087/images directory.
update
I've now got the following:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} example[NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/glot$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com:8077/$1 [P]
ProxyPassReverse / http://www.example.com/
I'm getting to see the other servers new pages, but I'm finding all the resources aren't found like images, css etc
Doing a view source all the resources in the installed product are set with leading slash
For example
/img/glotpress-logo.png
So I'm not sure how to get the resources loaded up.
Note I'm happy enough if the original starting point is www.example.com/glot instead of glot.example.com as in the original question
You can remap your resources to another server but having the other server on non-default port might prevent some of your visitors from viewing them as they might be block (firewalled) from accessing the port. If you're not worry about the port being block you can use mod_rewrite Remapping Resources. method.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/images/(.+) http://www.example.com:8077/images/$1 [R,L]
If you want to make sure that everyone is able to view the external resources, you need to use proxy where apache will tunnel the visitor connection to example.com:8077 transparently. You can read more about mod_rewrite for Proxying at apache website.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /images/
RewriteRule ^images/(.*)$ http://example.com:8077/images/$1 [P]
ProxyPassReverse /images/ http://example.com/images/
UPDATE
Have you tried to remove
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} example[NC]
This line basically tells that it will only process if the HTTP_POST is example.com if its coming from www.example.com this rule is not applicable. I'm hoping that "example[NC]" is a typo.
In the end it probably looks like
RewriteRule ^/glot/(.*)$ http://www.example.com:8077/glot/$1 [P]
ProxyPassReverse /glot/ http://www.example.com:8077/glot/
You need to do the configuration at the port 80 server to make it act as a proxy for the 8077 server.
The Apache document is here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/rewrite/proxy.html
I'll try and explain this the best I can; I have two domain names: www.original.com and www.mysite.com/. Within the site for www.original.com there is no content and all the content is hosted in www.mysite.com/original/. Now, when I visit www.original.com I have set up a redirect like this:
redirectMatch 307 ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/original
However, I have realised that this is not what I need, because I would like the visitors of the www.original.com site to see www.original.com on the address bar, and not http://www.mysite.com/original. Is there any way to do this in .htaccess? I used to do it in the cPanel of my old hosting account via an addon domain, but the hosting I have now (united-domains.de) do not provide addon domains, apparently.
Thanks
Since the 2 sites are separate, you'll need to rely on mod_proxy. There are a number of ways to create a reverse proxy from the www.original.com domain to the www.mysite.com domain. The easiest would be to use ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse:
ProxyPass / http://www.mysite.com/original
ProxyPassReverse / http://www.mysite.com/original
But these are only applicable inside the server or vhost config. If you don't have access to that, you'll have to use mod_rewrite's [P] flag, which hands the target substitution of a RewriteRule to mod_proxy, and you can use this within an htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?original\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/original/$1 [L,P]
You have to tell www.original.com to act like a proxy server. but this may require you more than just editing an htaccess.
See this for more informations : http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html
Is it possible to redirect all requests to x.domain.com/.* to y.domain.com/.* WITHOUT letting this redirection be visible in the url?
I have unsuccessfully tried several things in .htaccess. Just specifying the [L] flag still shows this redirection in the url (as it does when I use the [R] flag additionally).
EDIT: as somebody claimed there being no reason for this, let me give some more information :)
I have one nice url: x.domain.com , which is well known.
Then there are a number of other domains: spring.domain.com , summer.domain.com , autumn.domain.com, winter.domain.com .
Depending on the time of the year, a specific y.domain.com becomes the current one. The x.domain.com should always map to the current one.
EDIT2:
I'll write here, as the code isn't nicely rendered in the comments...
I tried what Arjan suggested:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^x.domain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /path/to/y.domain.folder/$1
Unfortunatly though this keeps redirecting forever. :(
Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.
Putting the [R] flag behind, I see in the url something like:
http://x.domain.com/path/to/y.domain.folder/path/to/y.domain.folder/path/to/y.domain.folder/ ...
Any suggestions?
Now that I can read the errorlogs, I can give a direct response, as what a possible 500 error refers to.
Assuming you have access to the Apache configuration, create the following virtual host for domain x.domain.com. Then simply update y to whatever you need each season.
<VirtualHost ...:80>
ServerName x.domain.com
UseCanonicalName Off
ProxyRequests Off
<Proxy *>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</Proxy>
ProxyPreserveHost Off
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ http://y.domain.com/ [P,NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://y.domain.com/$1 [P,NC]
ProxyPassReverse / http://y.domain.com/
</VirtualHost>
Also to pick up the Alias suggestions, if you have multiple virtual hosts (one for each season) then you could put a server alias into the current domain. E.g.
<VirtualHost ...:80>
ServerName summer.domain.com
ServerAlias x.domain.com
...
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost ...:80>
ServerName spring.domain.com
...
</VirtualHost>
...
This would make Apache deliver the summer.domain.com pages if you go to x.domain.com. If your seasonal subdomains depend on the HOST header line to be set correctly (i.e. to season.domain.com) you would need to use the first suggestion above, though.
If these are not hosted on the same server, then you'd need the Proxy flag. This also requires the proxy module to be running. Not tested:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^x.domain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://y.domain.com/$1 [P]
EDIT: Given the edits to your question they're probably just on the same server. So then indeed, as jetru suggested an Alias might do. Or:
# No RewriteCond required; serve all content from other folder:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /path/to/y.domain.folder/$1
EDIT: The above would not change the HTTP_HOST header that was sent by the browser (maybe that can be done as well). This implies that it would only work if the subdomains are represented on the file system as separate directories. So, as the .htaccess would then be placed in the directory holding the website for x.domain.com, the RewriteCond wouldn't even be required. Also, the directory for this x.domain.com subdomain would in fact not need any HTML content then; in the end all content would be served from the directory of another subdomain.
EDIT: As the above does not seem to work either, and yields endless rewrite loops even when adding [NS], maybe simply adding [L] helps here:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /path/to/y.domain.folder/$1 [NS,L]
Or maybe one can set an environment variable to stop the loop:
RewriteCond %{ENV:MY_VAR} !=1
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /path/to/y.domain.folder/$1 [E=MY_VAR:1]
But, for both [L] and [E]: I'm just guessing; I've never made mod_rewrite jump into the directory of another virtual host. I am not sure it can be done to start with.
Unfortunately, it's unclear how one would add a new subdomain. If one would just need to create a new directory with the name of the subdomain (without any use of some administrative tool) then the provider might be be using system wide rewriting as well. In fact, even without subdomains the provider might be doing some Mass Virtual Hosting as described in the URL Rewrite Guide.
I guess the best solution would be to change the value of HTTP_HOST on the fly, to solve issues with any system wide rewriting. Maybe the following is allowed to achieve that:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^x.domain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /path/to/y.domain.folder/$1 [E=HTTP_HOST:y.domain.com]
Again, as the above would only be present in the .htaccess in the x.domain.folder, the RewriteCond is probably not needed at all.
Have you tried
Alias /dir/file.html /full/path/to/other/file.html
??
To my knowledge and testing with firebug a redirect via .htaccess is always announced to the client and it's up to him how to proceed. It is therefore not an alternative to some sort of SSI functionality. To prevent a "fake" address modern browser should always make the REAL address visible to the user, however I think I have seen some misbehavior in programs like "feeddemon" where IE is embedded. If you - for whatever reason - really want to show content from one subdomain on another you can try using Javascript or (i)frames on the user side or some include functionality on the server site (eg. file_get_contents with php). However, I don't recommend this.