Mod Rewrite help

[Jamz]

Hi All,

Right im having a bit of bother trying to get this to work...

I have two websites:

website1
website2

Now both domain names point to the same web server, but i would like website2 to redirect to another directory on the server, but act as if that directory was the base directory of the site

So.... you visit www.website2.com and it redirects you to www.website2.com/website/index.php but i want the user to see www.website2.com/index.php in the url bar

Now i dont want everything to transfer to website2 as website1 is my main site, and i would like website2 to be another site completely but running on the same server.

Hopefully you will understand

Cheers

James

[ScriptMan]

If you have cPanel or DirectAdmin and are allowed addon domains you can convert the second site to an addon domain.

I also can tell you how to it with webmin.

[Jamz]

There is an admin panel, but nothing to allow me to say what domain points where... the only way to do it is via htaccess... but I'm quite new to htaccess and not sure how to code what I'm after

[error 404]

I would try this .htaccess in the main site :

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.website2.com$ 
RewriteRule ^(.*)   /website2/$1  [L]

Jean-Luc

[Jamz]

Originally Posted by error 404

I would try this .htaccess in the main site :

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.website2.com$ 
RewriteRule ^(.*)   /website2/$1  [L]

Jean-Luc

Hmm that didnt work... im already running the below code on the website:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.signhereuk\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.jamessimpson.co.uk/website/signhere/$1 [R,NC,L]

But i want signhereuk to look as if its on its own web host

[error 404]

As long as you have this

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.signhereuk\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.jamessimpson.co.uk/website/signhere/$1 [R,NC,L]

all hits on http://www.signhereuk.comsomething will be replaced by hits on http://www.jamessimpson.co.uk/website/signhere/something. You need to remove these lines to make it work.

Did you try a .htaccess with just the following:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.signhereuk\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)   /website/signhere/$1  [L]

What error do you get if it does not work ?

Jean-Luc

[Jamz]

i get an Internal Server Error using what you have said above

[mr.joebert]

Any time your replacement URL in RewriteRule begins with "http", the server automatically sends either a 302 (temporary, and default) or 301 (permenant, must be specified) external redirect. Basically it just makes RewriteRule function like a Redirect directive, instead of an alias like you want. So you'll not want to include the http.

Once you get that out of the way, you're left with a path to the subdirectory and a pattern to match. One thing you need to remember is that after the URL is matched and the rewrite is done, mod_rewrite sends the modified URL back through the list of rewrites again to see if it matches anything else in its' new form.

Chances are the reason your getting an internal server error has something to do with an infinite loop. "(.*)" is a generic pattern, it will ALWAYS match any URL that it's tested against. Because of this it means your rewrite depends on the RewriteCond directives to tell it when to stop.

In your case, since your RewriteCond for the HTTP_HOST will also always match your URL in this case, it doesn't know when to stop. You can use a RewriteCond that checks for the path addition to stop the loop.

[error 404]

mr.joebert is right 100%.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.signhereuk\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(?!website\/signhere\/)(.*)   /website/signhere/$1  [L]

should avoid the infinite loop.

Jean-Luc

[Jamz]

Originally Posted by error 404

mr.joebert is right 100%.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.signhereuk\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(?!website\/signhere\/)(.*)   /website/signhere/$1  [L]

should avoid the infinite loop.

Jean-Luc

That works spot on, cheers Jean-Luc!

[Bompa]

Originally Posted by Jamz

Hi All,

Right im having a bit of bother trying to get this to work...

I have two websites:

website1
website2

Now both domain names point to the same web server,

That confuses me right there.

Typically, when you register a new domain name, you do not point it
to a web server, but to DNS name server IPs that your hosting provider
gives you.

If you're on a shared hosting account, no amount of tinkering with htaccess
will do what you are asking.


It really sounds like you need to set up an AddOn Domain. Look again at
your admin cpanel. KEEP looking at it until you see ADDON DOMAINS
or just ADDONs. Click AddOn Domains, then put in the second domain name.
TAB to the next field. It will create a folder of the same name. Done.

It's quite simple to add a domain.

Even if you have a dedicated IP, which is very unlikely unless you have
a VPS or dedicated server, htaccess will still probably NOT do what you are
asking because before the request gets to htacess, it goes through the
vhosts in httpd.conf. When it finds no entry for domain2, it will .... give
some sort of error.

Bompa