Question

I have domain.com.

I also have m.domain.com.

If I try to access m.domain.com from a desktop, I want to redirect the user to domain.com UNLESS the user is explicitly trying to access a specific folder (in my case: wp-admin for login to wordpress).

Part of my .htaccess has the following code which properly detects and handles the redirect but I am stuck on the folder exclusion portion.

#Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews
#insert folder exclusion 
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*(MSIE.*Windows\ NT|Lynx|Safari|Opera|Firefox|Konqueror) [NC]
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(^.*(Opera\ Mini|SymbianOS|Mobile)) [NC]
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(\w+)\.domain\.com [NC]
#RewriteRule .* http://domain.com/ [R,L]

Answer 1

If you want to redirect when the root is accessed, then perhaps you could add the following before the last line with the RewriteRule.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$

This will then only process the redirect if you accessed http://m.domain.com/ directly.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(wp-admin|etc|etc)$

The above will redirect only if the folder being access is not in the list (wp-admin, etc, etc).