Question

I require some guidance with redirects please:

I have two WordPress installations on one hosting – one each in a separate sub-directory.

I was able to get the control panel to set up redirects for each domain, so that – for example:

• www.domain1.com redirected to www.domain1.com/d-one/

and

• www.domain2.com redirected to www.domain2.com/d-two/

Which works fine – I’m not too bothered that the path contains a subdirectory (I assume I can’t hide it).

However, for convenience of the visitors, I would like to set up redirects so that for example:

• www.domain1.com/contact redirects to www.domain1.com/d-one/contact

and

• www.domain2.com/contact redirects to www.domain2.com/d-two/contact

… the redirect knows which domain is which.

Answer 1

Seeing as no-one was in any hurry to help 🙁 , I did my own bit of digging elsewhere (something I probably should have done earlier if I weren’t in such a flap)…

After exhausting all the threads on this site, I found this site:

http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php

which sorted me right up with this solution under “multiple domains in one root“:

#two domains served from one root..
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain-one.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/one
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ one/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain-two.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^two
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ two/$1 [L]

and it also helped me to hide the unwanted subdirectories d-one and d-two.

Loverly jubbly!