: .htaccess directory to subdomain I have been trying to make a subdomain from a directory (made by .htaccess) to be used as the main page starting like http://domain.com/sub/2/3/4.html and turning

@Murphy175

I have found some fantastic code for the .htaccess
that converts any folder in the main www directory into sub-domains
e.g. www/somefolder turns into somefolder.domain.com
you can also set it so that any directory inside a certain directory becomes a subdomain
e.g. www/folder/somefolder turns into somefolder.domain.com

the code below is set to redirect directory's inside a specific directory

Options +FollowSymLinks -Multiviews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
#
# Canonicalize the hostname
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www).(example.com) [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.([^.]+).(example.com) [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+).www.(example.com) [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+).(example.com). [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+).(example.com):[0-9]+
RewriteRule (.*) %1.%2/ [R=301,L]
#
# If subdomain is NOT www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.com [NC]
# Extract (required) subdomain to %1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+).example.com$
# Rewrite if requested URL resolves to existing file or subdirectory in /subdomains/<subdomain>/ path
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/subdomains/%1/ -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/subdomains/%1/ -d
RewriteRule (.*) /subdomains/%1/ [L]


simply change 'example.com' to your domain e.g. 'domain.com'
make sure you don't remove any of the other symbols apart from dots .
currently the directory's in the folder called 'subdomains' will change into a subdomain e.g. www/subdomains/blog will turn into 'blog.domain.com'
to set it to just change the folders in the www directory to subdomains
e.g. www/blog will turn into 'blog.domain.com'

if you want to automatically forward to a subdomain e.g. blog.domain.com
you will need to put this at the end of the other code

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ blog.example.com/ [R=301,L]


hope this works for everyone it took me ages to find a solution to this horrible problem
thanks
Reblerebel

Vote Up Vote Down

@Welton855

You need to configure a apache virtual host for sub.domain.com with www/sub as its DirectoryRoot.

Vote Up Vote Down