Question

I recently joined a site called DNSDynamic and was wondering if there was a way to make the URL that they supply redirect to a specific directory on my server since I am hosting multiple sites on multiple directories, but it simply asks for the server IP address and sends visitors to the root.

I figured I’d have to write a bit of code myself for this, what would you recommend?

I was thinking a bit of PHP in the root of the server that detects the referrer and redirects them accordingly using a meta code, am I right?

How would I go about this? Thanks. 🙂

Answer 1

With IIS you can certainly redirect to a subfolder based on the URL used using URL rewrite, I believe that there is similar functionality available in Apache.

URL Rewrite example:

    <rule name="RuleName" stopProcessing="true">
                <match url="(.*)" />
                <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
                    <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" matchType="Pattern" pattern="sitedomainname.co.uk$" ignoreCase="true" negate="false" />
                    <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www.sitedomainname.co.uk$" />
                </conditions>
                <action type="Rewrite" url="sitedomainSubfolder/{R:1}" />
            </rule>