How to Redirect the Root of a Sub Domain to a Subfolder with .htaccess and mod_rewrite

Apr 17 2010
Posted by highrockmedia
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Sometimes as a web developer, I get the oddest requests. I recently needed to redirect the root of a subdomain to a sub folder within that sub domain. So basically I wanted to send a request for subdomain.example.com to subdomain.example.com/subfolder. I was able to achieve this by using Apache mod_rewrite and .htaccess. You will need mod_rewrite enabled on your server and hopefully you are on a Linux / Unix paltform for this to work. At the root of my domain I created a .htaccess file with this code:

  1. #Enable mod_rewrite
  2. Options +FollowSymLinks
  3. RewriteEngine on
  4.  
  5. # if requested subdomain is not "www"
  6. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?example\.com [NC]
  7. # and we have not already rewritten this request to the subdomain's subfolder
  8. RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !/folder/.
  9. # extract requested subdomain to %2
  10. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?([^.]+)\.example\.com
  11. # rewrite the request to the subdomain's subfolder
  12. RewriteRule (.*) /folder/%2/$1 [L]

I hope this was helpful for all those seeking a similar solution.


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