REWRITE RULES

A URL address bar with www

From the land of things that were harder than they needed to be. Seems like you need a deep dive in everything to be able to do anything sometimes.

So, on this domain I wanted to use a single host to handle a few subdomains. One for my blog (which you're on now), and maybe a couple of others for web classes or anything else I may want to mess around with.

Easy enough to do with subdomains and different document root folders on a standard server. And the hosting service does provide different document root folders. I ended up with different FTP root folders for each subdomain which is not what I was looking for. I wanted to use one FTP account and then just upload to the location I wanted for the subdomain I was updating.

So I decided to use .htaccess to redirect subdomains to subfolders in the document root.I also wanted wordpress in a subfolder of it's own like the image below:

This presented a problem with having http://steili.com and www.brandons119.sg-host.com end up in the /wp directory, and then having other subdomains (demo / test) end up in their respective directories.

.htaccess flag explanations can be found here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/flags.html

And lots of other interesting facts here: http://www.htaccess-guide.com/

Here's how I got this working (with comments):

IndexIgnore * RewriteEngine On

REWRITE RULES

redirect www to non-www RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

Rewrite *.domain.com to subdirectory ignoring case RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.domain\.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://domain.com/%1/$1 [L,NC,QSA]

Rewrite primary domain to wordpress RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/.*/ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://domain.com/wp/$1 [L,NE,R=301]

# END REWRITE RULES

Hopefully that helps. The nice part about this is I have one FTP account to deal with, any new subdomains I add all I have to do is point DNS to the host and add a folder to the root directory that matches the subdomain name.

Would you want this in production? Not likely, but this is just my domain with some junk and a blog... :)

REWRITE RULES

redirect www to non-www RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

Rewrite .domain.com to subdirectory ignoring case RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.)\.domain\.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://domain.com/%1/$1 [L,NC,QSA]

Rewrite primary domain to wordpress RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/./ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.)$ https://domain.com/wp/$1 [L,NE,R=301]