: Redirecting subdomain to root index.php I am new to this. Here is the situation and I'm wondering if someone can suggest the best solution to it: I have a domain www.mydomain.com where I have

@Sent6035632

This will redirect a subdomain to another domain or root domain

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursubdomain.yourdomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) www.newdomain.com/ [L,R]


if you want to show mydomain.com/index.php website content to beta.mydomain.com sub domain or beta.mydomain.com website content to mydomain.com/index.php?

Simple change domain content path (folder where you website located) from your hosting panel.

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@LarsenBagley505

Why not use .htaccess and allow only people from your company network (IP's or domain) access to view the website?

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@Chiappetta492

If I understood your question correctly, a solution to your problem can be found in this Stack Overflow question. Assuming you're using a single Apache instance for all your sites, you can tell mod_rewrite that you're doing a rewrite instead of a redirect by removing the R flag from the RewriteRule:

# Example of internal redirect
RewriteRule (.+)$ "?url=" [L,R=301]

# Example of internal rewrite
RewriteRule (.+)$ "?url=" [L]


More info about rewrite vs. redirect in this thread. I believe the fact that you're using different domains (or domain/subdomain) will not be an issue, at least I haven't seen anything in the docs, but I'm not sure. Quote about absolute URLs:


If an absolute URL is specified, mod_rewrite checks to see whether the hostname matches the current host. If it does, the scheme and hostname are stripped out and the resulting path is treated as a URL-path. Otherwise, an external redirect is performed for the given URL. To force an external redirect back to the current host, see the [R] flag below.


Now, if you're using a different Apache instance for each site (or some other configuration - I assumed you're using Apache because of the htaccess tag) then I'm afraid I can't help you.

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