another rewrite problem

[ajBerns]

Hope this one goes to Jim as soon as possible.

This is my first post so I would like to have Jim address this because I've read so much inquiries answered by him with positive feedback.

Ok, here is my rewrite code written at .htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?mydomain\.com [NC]
Rewriterule ^dir/index\.html [mysubdomain.mydomain.com...] [R=301,L]

I get to see the resulting URL correctly but not the contents that I am expecting.

I actually get to see the index page of my website root directory.

how should I fix this?

Thanks a lot in advance.

[jdMorgan]

ajBerns,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?mydomain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^dir/index\.html [mysubdomain.mydomain.com...] [R=301,L]

I get to see the resulting URL correctly but not the contents that I am expecting.

If the resulting URL you see is correct, then the rule you posted is working fine. But you will have to use mod_rewrite or some other method to tell the server what directory you want it to use when it receives requests for mysubdomain.mydomain.com.

Normally, you'd have a second ruleset that would 'map' subdomain requests to a subdirectory, something like:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysubdomain\.mydomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) /mysubdomain_subdirectory/$1 [L]

Jim

[ajBerns]

Anyway, I tried this one,

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?mydomain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^mysub/paths/index\.php?id=1$ [dirtydomain.mydomain.com...] [R=301,L]

but this didn't worked. I mean, I still see the same URL. I need to change the URL as [dirtydomain.mydomain.com...] Or more precisely, I need to change the URL dynamically for each user on my site. Just like [newuser1.mydomain.com,...] [newuser2.mydomain.com...etc...] of course, this goes whenever the 'id' attribute in the index.php page changes value...

Any idea?

[jdMorgan]

I'm having a hard time understanding what you want to do.

If you want to rewrite ^mysub/paths/index\.php?id=<any_username> to http://dirtydomain.mydomain.com/<any_username>

Then the rule would be:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^mysub/paths/index\.php$ http://dirtydomain.mydomain.com/%1? [R=301,L]

Jim

[ajBerns]

Actually, this is what I wanted to rewrite:

^mysub/paths/index\.php?id=<any_username> to [<any_username>.mydomain.com...]

Thus, I wanted that every page request having this form: index.php?id=<somevalue> would display this URL: [<somevalue>.mydomain.com...] having the original contents...

Just that currently, the URL is correct but the contents is wrong (displays the contents of the index page in my root directory)

Hope, I explained it well... :)

Thanks in advance!

[jdMorgan]

> the URL is correct but the contents is wrong (displays the contents of the index page in my root directory)

In that case, the problem is not with the rewrite rule you are talking about here; Whatever code you use to 'map' subdomains into subdirectories on your site is broken (or missing).

Jim