Redirect some URLs from subdomain to root

[clickfire]

I am trying to redirect a few URLs from a subdomain to their respective root domain locations with the remaining subdomain URLs going to a directory on the root. I thought this would work but it's not. I'm stumped. Anyone see the light?

# Move good news subdomain urls to respective www locations
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule news.clickfire.com/blah/123/$ http://www.clickfire.com/blah/ [R=301,L]

# Everything else on news subdomain go to root/viewpoints/news/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^news.clickfire.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.clickfire.com/viewpoints/news/$1 [R=301,L]

[lucy24]

Were your two Rules written by different people? The first Rule doesn't work because it can't work:

RewriteRule news.clickfire.com {et cetera}

The "pattern" part of a Rewrite only looks at the part of the address after the (sub)domain (and before the query string, if any). If you need to do something within a specific subdomain, you need a RewriteCond like the one accompanying the second Rule.

[clickfire]

I just pulled that first rule out of another htaccess file. I tried sticking some conditions in there but couldn't get anything to work. Any guess as to the what the RewCond should look like?

[g1smd]

Your first rule is good if you are redirecting

http://news.clickfire.com/something/news.clickfire.com/blah/123/

to a new URL. That is what you have coded it to do. RewriteRule sees only the path part of the request, not the domain name.

In the

RewriteCond

of the second rule you should escape the literal periods.