Question

Have site with many languages
extra languages are in subdomains on my server like de.mydomain.com, fr.mydomain.com.
in these de,fr subdirectory i’ve placed only htaccess file with this code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.de\.mydomain\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://www.mydomain.com/$1?lan=2%1" [L]

And it works but not how I want. it simply redirects from de.mydomain.com to mydomain.com, url in the browser is changing and I would like the url to stay like: de.mydomain.com but the content to be taken from mydomain.com?lan=2.(i use lan variable to change lang)

what do I do wrong here?
maybe my general aproach to this problem is wrong?

Answer 1

Edit :

You need to point de subdomain to the root directory instead, and then adding these lines to the root htaccess file :

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?de\.mydomain\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1?lan=2 [L,QSA]