: How to show different pages for www and non-www versions A simple (probably stupid) question: is it possible to show different pages for www and non-www versions of a website? I mean for example,

@Shanna517

Just found the solution:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.site.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/folder/
RewriteRule (.*) /folder/

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@Ogunnowo487

Yes, this is definitely possible. But please note that, by convention, domain.com is just an alias for domain.com. So, what you describe is not at all standard and violates most users' expectations. It also runs at least some risk of search engine penalties. So, in my opinion, it is not a good idea, but yes, it's possible.

Exactly how you do it depends on the server and/or scripting technology. For example, you could do it with Apache, which would look like this (in a .htaccess file):

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/whatever/?
RewriteRule . /whatever


This would send all requests for domain.com to /whatever, but would not affect requests on domain.com. This is probably overly simplistic for what you want, but you haven't provided a lot of detail.

You can do the same thing in a scripting language like Python or PHP, but how you do it depends on what exactly you want to do.

Also, the reason you can't create a www subdomain in cPanel is that it creates it automatically.

(Edited: forgot to add the second RewriteCond to avoid a loop.)

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