Question

I have created a subdomain yesterday as http://www.subdomain.example.com. This has created a directory at the root by the name of subdomain. Now when i open http://www.subdomain.example.com, it gets redirected to http://www.example.com/subdomain. How to keep my url from showing the directory path i.e. in address bar it keep showing http://www.subdomain.example.com , while showing content from the directory subdomain.
I have a shared hosting account at hostgator.
Thanks for the help

Answer 1

In your .htaccess file, turn off the redirect and use mod_rewrite:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?subdomain\.example\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdomain
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdomain/$1 [L]

This checks if the requested host is either www.subdomain.example.com or subdomain.example.com makes sure the request doesn’t already start with a /subdomain and appends it otherwise. This redirects internally on the server so your browser doesn’t actually get redirected (address bar will still say: subdomain.example.com).