Question

We have two sites, and we’ve just now made an in-house development server that we want to have both sites on. What I want to accomplish is to have an .htaccess in each of the site folders that prepends the development URL of the site. For example, where they simply have a header(location: /folder/whatever.php), the files should actually go to thesite/folder/whatever.php.

Currently what happens is (for example) they’ll go to 192.168.x.x/folder/whatever.php

Answer 1

If I understood correctly and what you want is to redirect 192.168.x.x/folder/whatever.php to thesite/folder/whatever.php, you could use this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^thesite.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://thesite.com/$1 [R=301,L]