Topic: alias.domain rewrite, redirect or something.

[karenwood]

Apache version 2.2.14 (ubuntu 10.04)

I need to redirect my domain

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.3:80>
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias www.domain.com
ServerAlias alias.domain.com
</VirtualHost>

I need to tell the server to redirect from:
http://alias.domain.com
to
http://www.domain.com/shopping

(and/or how would it to 'forward' to a shopping.php page?)

I cannot make it work without endless looping!

KW

[James Blond]

Hi,

it is easy to do

[karenwood]

RewriteBase: only valid in per-directory config files
...fail!

Thanks but your example is the same as the MANual. (and too hard for me to de-code with any success).

I tried:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^fancyalias\.mydomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/shopping/$1 [R=301,L]



Can you please translate more specific to my request, please. I do naught understand the $1


my need:

from:
alias.domain.com

to:
www.domain.com/shopping.php

or:
www.domain.com/shopping/

[karenwood]

Stucked & No Worky

[James Blond]

[karenwood]

I deleted the $1 and it works as I wush.
I still don't know what the $1 is for.

I can do both /shopping with an index.page there, and /shopping.php with much success!

The unknown factor is what that $1 does as it appended two slashes afta shopping//

Love You Apache Boys for rescuing lil ol' me and mine

[James Blond]

[karenwood]

alias.domain.com/shopping/index.php works as I was hoping for expected:

[karenwood]

Please help!

Although the domain.com/shopping/index.php works according to the .htaccess directive, now ANY DIRECTORY also reditects!!!

I must ONLY redirect the shopping directory not EVERY directory.

Please respond, thank you!!!!!

[James Blond]

You can put that rewrite rule into a directory block or move the .htaccess file in to the shopping folder

[karenwood]

Every Directory Redirects.

http://aliasword.domain.com/about also redirects >which is BAD<
http://aliasword.domain.com/help also redirects >which is BAD<


I only want to redirect the one specific aliasword i.e: http://aliasword.domain.com/shopping

My .htaccess file as is:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/shopping/index.php [R=301,L]

frustrating.

Please, can someone provide the solution to:
redirect only http://aliasword.domain.com to the directory http://aliasword.domain.com/shopping/index.php as a rule for the .htaccess which will ONLY redirect that specific aliasword

[glsmith]

OMG ...you've even got this dumb guy from down the coast confused.

The last line of your last post reads aliasword.karensdomain.com -> aliasword.karensdomain.com/shopping/index.php

Way up above you claim you want aliasword.karensdomain.com -> www.karensdomain.com/shopping/index.php

Which is it?

My other maybe more important question is, if I go to simply www.karensdomain.com where do you want me to land then? This will help me decide if you even really need rewriting.

But let's back up a little and scratch our heads. What you have there says: If the hostname does not match www.karensdomain.com then do stuff. To be honest, I do not think before time ends and only machines roam the earth aliasword.karensdomain.com is ever going to match www.karensdomain.com and probably not even then. What do you think? If you agree, then I suppose that condition needs to be tossed into the La Brea tar pit because the rule then is always going to fire for anything not www.karensdomain.com, you know, like http://aliasword.karensdomain.com/help.

So I think you want to hone in on only aliasword.karensdomain.com instead, but remember, I'm confused!

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^aliasword\.karensdomain\.com$ [NC]

of course that still leaves the problem of likely barfing up on things like http://aliasword.karensdomain.com/about and friends so maybe add a caveat after it

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

I must admit I am not a URL Rewriting wiz though, it's an art form I have not come close to mastering sadly.

[karenwood]

need:

www.KARENSDOMAIN.com >>goto index.php
nothing_here_before.KARENSDOMAIN.com/regular_old_index.php page

DumbWord_alias.KARENSDOMAIN.com/Regular_old_INDEX.PAGE.PHP

SPECIALWORD_ALIAS.KARENSDOMOAIN.com/shopping/index.php

pretty please...

Sincerely,
Karen

[glsmith]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^specialword_alias\.karensdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .? /shopping/index.php [R=301,L]

Does this not do what you're looking for?

This should not affect
karensdomain.com
www.karensdomain.com
dumbword_alias.karensdomain.com
so all the above should just go to what is set for the DirectoryIndex, which I assume is index.php

It should also not affect
specialword_alias.karensdomain.com/some_other_existing_file_or_folder

[karenwood]

¡muchas gracias!
!thank you mooie muchas!