subdomain via php

different folders to same subdomain

[carthago]

Hi,

I am not sure if following is possible but hope I can find some help here (if it can be done).

For my website i want to redirect pages located in different folders to the same subdomain.

www.site.com
www.site.com/folder1/pages
www.site.com/folder2/pages
www.site.com/folder3/pages

These pages i want to redirect to the same subdomainname.site.com

Thanks for the help

[ag_47]

Ontion 1: Slap an index.php in each of these folders with a redirect, something like
<? header("Location: subdomainname.site.com"); ?>

Option 2 (better): Use Apache + mod_rewrite;

[carthago]

Thank you for your reply.

Option b is what I am searching for.

On the server I have:

domain / subdomain1/different folders and pages

Now I want that:

www.domain.com/subdomain1/anyfolder/anypage

wil point to subdomain1.domain.com/anyfolder/anypage

In my .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} subdomain1.domain.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subdomain1/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subdomain1/$1

In the subdomain1 folder I included an index page

wildcard and mod_rewrite is on

-> when typing subdomain1.domain.com the index page is not found
-> when typing www.subdomain1.com the index page of subdomain1 is found

-> when surfing the website and clicking on a link that points to sudomain1 folder/pages it still shows the
www.domain.com/subdomain1/pages

How to make this work so all is pointing at subdomain1.domain.com/pages or when pages are in folder
subdomain1.domain.com/folder/pages

Thanks for the help and suggestions

[g1smd]

REQUEST_URI contains the folder and filepath within the URL, not the hostname or subdomain information.

You asked for a redirect, but your code is for a rewrite.

It is important to separate out what is namespace as a URL and what is namespace as a path on the server internals.

A redirect will contain a target hostname for the redirect, and [R=301,L] to flag the redirect.

[g1smd]

*** will point to ***

What do you mean by "will point to"?

Does the URL the user sees change, or is content delivered from the other server location without revealing what that other location is?

URLs are defined by what is in the link that the user clicks on, so once you have the redirect/rewrite working, the links on the site should then also be updated.

[jdMorgan]

Let's clarify, because I think the description of the problem may be backwards:

What is the URL you want to appear in the browser address bar?

What URL do you link to on your page(s)?

What is the actual internal server filepath that the URL shown in the browser should resolve to?

I believe this will end up being the classical "Change links on pages to new URLs, rewrite new linked URLs to actual server filepaths, redirect only direct client requests for old URLs to new URLs"- type solution.

Jim

[carthago]

Thank you g1smd & jdMorgan,

g1smd you are right when you tell me I use the code to rewrite. That is what I want. Sorry for that.

REQUEST_URI : htdocs/folder which has to be subdomain/here can be folders as well

I want that visitors see subdomain.domain.com/page (or file structure)

jdMorgan:

- subdomain.domain.com
- I link to the old structure www.domain.com/file/page (hope that a rewrite will do all)
- www.domain.com/foldersubdomainname/page

htdocs/folder i want to make subdomain/pages
htdocs/folder i want to make subdomain/folders in the folder/pages

Again thank you and hope my explanation i more clear now.

[carthago]

The htaccess is in the htdocs folder

[g1smd]

For the address to appear in the browser address bar, that is the URL that needs to be in the links on the pages. The URL in the link defines the URL.

You will need to link to the new structure. The rewrite will NOT do what you want. A rewrite does not "change URLs". It connects a URL request clicked from a link, to a internal filepath on a server.

[jdMorgan]

Right, so the first step is to change the links on your pages to refer to subdomain.domain.com, then we need to clean up this code and add a second rule:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
#
# Externally redirect old subdomain-subdirectory URLs to new
# subdomain URLs if directly requested by a client
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /subdomain1/
RewriteRule ^subdomain1/(.*)$ http://subdomain1.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#
# Internally rewrite subdomain links to subdomain-subdirectory if not already
# done (this test is required to prevent an 'infinite' rewriting loop)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain1\.domain\.com
RewriteCond $1 !subdomain1/
RewriteRule (.*) subdomain1/$1 [L]

You will notice that this code "works" even without changing the links on your pages. But if you do not change the links on your pages, then every request from a client (browser or robot) following one of those links will be redirected, resulted in two requests to your server for each link followed, slowing down the "user experience" of your site, doubling of the number of "page" entries in your server access log, "pollution" of your server stats with all the extra requests, and possible risk to your pages' search engine rankings. In short, the on-page links must be changed -- You can use a "multi-file-search-and-replace" tool to do these edits more quickly.

All changes between this code and your original code are entirely intentional.

Jim

[edited by: jdMorgan at 3:44 pm (utc) on Oct. 23, 2008]

[carthago]

Both again thank you for the remarks and help.

I see that all is working now.

As I understood: I have to change ALL links which pointing to the old site.com/subdomain1folder/etc into subdomain.site.com/folders and pages

Again you both helped me a lot.

[carthago]

jdMorgan : You have a link to such 'muliti-file-search-and-replace' tool?

[g1smd]

Various "text editors for programmers" have such features.

[jdMorgan]

Just type that phrase into a search engine... They have a lot of links. :)

Our TOS do not allow promotion of any specific products or services here on WebmasterWorld, in order to keep these forums free of spammy posts.

Jim

[carthago]

Good rule :-) Already did before asking but not know the good ones.

[g1smd]

Pretty much any of those with "Type" or "Note" or "Edit" or "Pad" in the name.