redirect domain.com/dir to dir.domain.com help

[anarckie]

Hello, i've done searches and have tried everything i found but can not get it to work.

I have been using 'subdomains.domain.com/' for awhile and until recently Google has now begun spidering 'www.domain.com/subdomains/' in their index.

I want to avoid duplicate content problems so need a way to redirect it back to the subdomain in htaccess.

Here is what i have so far (doesnt work). I have tried other codes but i get errors. Thanks for the help.

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Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^www¦sub1¦sub2¦sub3\.domain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [domain.com...] [R=permanent,L]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/sub1/?$ [sub1.domain.com...] [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/sub2/?$ [sub2.domain.com...] [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/sub3/?$ [sub3.domain.com...] [L,R=301]

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[jdMorgan]

Two questions:
1) What code or method do you currently use to get from sub.example.com to example.com/sub? Or are you doing something different?
2) *How* does you new code not work? Does it do nothing, throw an error, or loop until the max redirect limit is reached?

Jim

[anarckie]

1. Not sure, i set it up through my CPanel. But it does not have anything in the .htaccess.

2. With the code above - it does nothing. Both ways to view the pages work.

[jdMorgan]

OK, if this is a standard cPanel subdomain implementation, it is likely that you'll need to put the rule to redirect each subfolder to a subdomain *in the .htaccess file in that subfolder*. You won't be able to do this all from the 'main' .htaccess file, because that file won't be processed for a subdomain request.

Jim

[edited by: jdMorgan at 5:10 pm (utc) on July 18, 2006]

[anarckie]

Jim, can you provide me with an example of code that would work if i put it in the subdomain folder that will redirect if it's coming from www and not the subdomain?

Thanks for the help.

[anarckie]

Anyone?