Comments on: Redirecting subdomains to directories in apache.

By: meegan

meegan — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:48:12 +0000

So random that I was looking to figure how to do this and he used my name! Too funny. Good article and especially awesome use of my name : )

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:42:20 +0000

Does anybody know how to set it up on a server running CPanel? Tried with virtual hosts method and my apache process is 190Mb in size…
Filesland

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:24:28 +0000

How would one do this with say WAMP Server?

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:26:50 +0000

I have a mod rewrite problem that I cannot find a solution to. So, if anyone is interested in solving this for a high school teacher, here it is.

I have the following .htaccess file in my root directory for http://www.myedusite.com

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.k12\.myedusite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI) !^%1/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /home/httpd/vhosts/myedusite.com/httpdocs/webumake/teachers/%1/$1

This rewrite creates http://username.k12.myedusite.com, so my website of http://chills.k12.myedusite.com will read exactly the same in the url address. I have a subdomain program installed in the web site builder that does this for any username account.

The question I have is how do I change the rewrite so that anyone who types in http://chills.k12.myedusite.com will be redirected to https://chills.k12.myedusite.com?

Sincerely,
Charles

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:23:32 +0000

Help..! I tried setting up the above method, but through Plesk dns zones instead of my registrar. Well plesk sucks in my personal feeling when it comes to managing DNS and subdomains.

MY main web site is fine but my subdomains are hit and miss. How do you setup your zone files through your registrar and point to plesk without conflicts? I can manage my registrar no problems but when I activate them there is nothing. Do you change or turn off plesk dns?

By: Joey B

Joey B — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:31:34 +0000

This is exactly what I have been looking for. My only question is that I don’t have a domain assigned to my server (yet) and I need to know if there is a way to make the rewrite the computer with the name it was called by instead of a domain name. So no matter what the server is called by (127.0.0.1,localhost,192.168..,Computer name, domain name) it returns that name.

By: Gijsbert

Gijsbert — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:17:16 +0000

First of all great explanation. I’m trying to rewrite a cname.domain.com to domain.com/dir/cname.php

With the explanation above I can rewrite:

cname.domain.com –> domain.com/dir/cname/

But I need cname as being a php-file, so it should be:

cname.domain.com –> domain.com/dir/cname.php

Any ideas?

By: bdogg64

bdogg64 — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:59:39 +0000

Thanks a bunch!

By: Jim Callender

Jim Callender — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:05:11 +0000

This is the way to do it on apache. But why not save less code and use .htaccess?

All you have to do is in file name “.htaccess” put in file:

DirectoryIndex about.htm

then your website address: http://www.website.com/about/

will go to: http://www.website.com/about/about.htm

without this file you will either get a 404 or view the parent directory.

Hope this helps those who dont dabble in apache

By: oosman

oosman — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:07:12 +0000

Thank you for these instructions.

You can also do this using virutal hosts, but I did not know about this method.

To do it using virtual host method add new virtual host in http.conf file:

pico -w /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

then add this block:

ServerName bugzilla.demha.com
ServerAlias bugzilla.demha.com
ServerPath /bugzilla
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/bugzilla
DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html index.php index.htm

However this does not work for secure apache (https) - that is why your method is helpful. However I the pages now served from the sub-directory are no longer encyrpted. I am trying to figure out how to encrypt the sub-domain pages as well.