Question

Here is my question:

I am wanting to redirect users from one subdomain while serving files from the previous. For example, I want a user to access their account:

• Files are located at: holonet.example.com/account/
• I want the user’s url to point to (display): account.example.com/

Another example:

• Files are: holonet.example.com/account/user/reset
• URL point (display): account.example.com/user/reset

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I have been trying a couple of .htaccess ways but they have not been working. Here is my latest attempts: (.htaccess in publc_html):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(holonet\.)?thearmyoflight\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /account/$1 [L]

I then tried the following since the previous did not work –

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/holonet/account/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.  [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.thearmyoflight\.com$  [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /holonet/account/%1/$1  [L]

Answer 1

I think you want something like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^account\.thearmyoflight\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/account/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /account/$1 [L]

This is assuming both domains point to the same document root. If not, you’ll have to rely on mod_proxy:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^account\.thearmyoflight\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/account/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://holonet.thearmyoflight.com/account/$1 [L,P]