Question

imagine the root of a server where multiple aliases such as website.nl; website.de; etc. all direct to the root the root \httpdocs\ with this physical hosting:

httpdocs\...
httpdocs\holland\    # webpages in Dutch   (home.php | contact.php | etc)
httpdocs\deutsch\    # webpages in English (home.php | contact.php | etc)
httpdocs\images\     # all multilingual webpages share the same images
httpdocs\js_css\     # all multilingual webpages share the same scripts/layout
httpdocs\.htaccess   # here be a clean root, nothing else than .htaccess

Thus, only the webpages .php differ: the rest they all share the same! Now imagine that you want to configure .htacces via apache script to make “bridge the gap” if you will, between the root and the folder, making it possible to type this in browser and below water fetching the right php webpage, but keeping the shorter url in the browser:

website.nl/home.php
//files fetched should come from the holland folder associated with website.nl

website.de/home.php
//files fetched should come from the deutsch folder associated with website.de

(As opposed to seeing this in the browser: website.nl/holland/home.php | website.de/deutsch/home.php)

What apache script line will do such thing?
Thanks: Much appreciated!

Answer 1

You need to have “mod_rewrite” installed in apache.
Assuming you do, place a .htaccess file in the root directory of that account
(probably:)
~/public_html/.htaccess

and then put this in that file

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^website.nl(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.website.nl(.*)$
RewriteRule ^.*$ "http\:\/\/www\.website\.nl\/holland\/$1" [L,P]

And then repeat the rewrite condition for website.de

Basically that says, grab the section after the website.nl part, and paste it on the part after holland, but the “L,P” says to make that a silent redirect and keep the user on the same url as they entered with.

goodluck!