My domain is meeting.com.
I work with PHP, jQuery, for the main part. No ASP.
When a user creates an account, I'd like a subdomain user.meeting.com to be created for REDIRECTION purposes only. I don't want the subdomain to exist for real.
When someone would load john13.meeting.com, I would like the website to redirect to meeting.com?user=john13 (I don't care if john13.meeting.com remains in the URL bar).
What is the most efficient and easy method of doing it automatically in PHP or Apache? Please consider performance too since I have many users.
You don't need PHP for that. The right Apache configuration with the rewrite module on, will do the trick.
For example (not tested):
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.meeting\.com?$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.meeting\.com?$
RewriteRule ^$ /user/%1 [L]
Or if you're not rewriting further for SEO, the rule could be
RewriteRule ^$ /index.php?user=%1 [L]
For more inspiration, check out the link Shef posted with another example of how to achieve this.
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I need to redirect traffic for a section of a redeveloped site back to the original site with apache mod_rewrite rules. I need to redirect all requests starting with http://www.example.com/page.asp back to the original site http://www.original.com/page.asp with the query string or anything following page.asp intact.
This seems simple enough, however I have had no luck with mod_rewrite generators or documentation on the web. My latest stab at the problem looks like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^http://www.example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^page\.asp(.*)$ http://www.original.com/page\.asp$1 [R=301,NC]
I appreciate any insight into correcting this mod_rewrite rule. Other redirects are working fine.
I was able to get the rewrite to function properly using:
RewriteRule ^/page(.+) http://www.original.com/page$1 [R=301,NC,L]
I found this apache doc helpful: Resource Moved to Another Server
I have a domain with subdomains witch are used by bunch of people... The thing is that I can't understand wich subdomains are in use by the right people. So my question is:
How to execute a javascript alert with a message(in all subdomains) to users to send me a email if subdomain is in use...
Sorry for my bad English and bad explanation.
Try to use (in .htaccess file):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain.maindomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ message.php [R=301,NC,L]
For each subdomain and make the message.php say the message.
I am not good at .htaccess but it might work.
This code would dissable the subdomain during the time you use it tho, so make sure you cange it back.
i really could use some advices related to subdomains.
recently we decide to make every subdomain of main portal to be available for blogs (something similar to lets say any blog platform)
so what i cant achieve is to make redirection to certain folder of main portal site or php file like:
xxxxx.domain.com/index.php?get=xx&get2=xx -> to be run by actual php file located on main portal account, lets say subdomains.php?get=x&get2=xx, alternatively - to be run by mainportal/subdomains/index.php?get=x&get2=xx
i tried with
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.domain\.pl$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) subdomain.php [L]
effect was almost correct but get parameters are missing:(
on the other hand it can be entirely wrong... i simply dont understand or that rewrite rules:(
thanks for any help/tips
You can try with QSA (query string append):
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*\.domain\.pl$ [NC]
RewriteRule . subdomain.php [QSA]
I want to, in my .htaccess, redirect the user to another url depending on what the user accesses.
In this case, http://example.com/awesome.com and http://awesome.com is the same site, and if the user is accessing http://example.com/awesome.com, I want him or her to be redirected to http://awesome.com.
Is this feasible?
Edit: With the help of answers, I came up with this working solution:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^awesome.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://awesome.com/$1 [R=301]
you can use mod_rewrite (apache2 module)
this is the .htaccess that i use in order to redirect from my old domain to my new one (while keeping the link strcture e.g www.domain1.com/link/linkb.html becomes www.domain1.gr/link/linkb.html)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %(www\.)?domain1\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.domain1.gr%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
google mod_rewrite for more information (syntax etc)
Not entirely sure about .htaccess, but you could just use server code on your 404 page to redirect them appropriately; this way you could collect stats, setup a toolbar, or whatever other actions you might want to take.
.htaccess is about authorization, not redirection. I recommend you look at the redirection support for Apache (or whatever web server you're using), which is a much better fit for this problem and just make sure your .htaccess/authorization is in line with the target.
This rule should do it:
RewriteRule ^awesome\.example(/.*)?$ http://www.awesome.example$1 [R=301,L]
Check the Redirect & RedirectMatch options in apache. For simple cases, like yours it's simplier than a mod_rewrite.
Redirect /awesome.com http://ww.awesome.com
or
Redirect permanent /awesome.com http://ww.awesome.com
Now, if example.com and awesome.com are on the same apache server and same virtualhost you're maybe mising the named bases virtualhost things and you're maybe trying to make something really more complex than a simple named base virtualhost definition.
I want to set a subdomain for all site users, like www.companyname.mydomain.com
I would like to use htaccess for this.
when somebody requests www.companyname.mydomain.com it should redirect to
myfile.php?name=companyname
How can I achieve this using an htaccess file ?
Thanks for the consideration.
Make sure this website is configured to respond to *.mydomain.com.
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^www.(\w+).mydomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ /myfile.php?name=%1 [L]
You might want to adjust ^.*$, since this check will rewrite regardless of what comes after www.companyname.mydomain.com.