Redirect Directory on One Domain to Subdomain on Different Domain

This needs to work for:

http://www.domainone.com/directory/anythingelse

etc.

Please note that the directory needs to be removed from the first domain and the subdomain needs to be added to the second domain.

Can this be achieved using .htaccess please?

Thanks very much for your help.

elgrandeperro · Mar 18, 2009

in subdomainone directory .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$

http://www.domainone.com/directory,

[R=301,L,NC]

MrTBC · Mar 19, 2009

Thanks, but you have included the specific URL (i.e. /anythingatall) and I need to redirect all URLs please.

elgrandeperro · Mar 19, 2009

I had a misspell:

In

you would have that .htaccess which redirects ALL (including subdirs) to

http://www.domainone.com/directory/*

That should redirect all URLS for

MrTBC · Mar 19, 2009

But surely this won't do that:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$

http://www.domainone.com/directory

[R=301,L,NC]

elgrandeperro · Mar 19, 2009

Sure it will. If it is in

and htaccess is enabled. Perhaps you are thinking of rewrite rules in httpd.conf as opposed to .htaccess? Anything traversing

http://www.domainone.com/directory

is going to consult .htaccess and the rewrite rule.

MrTBC · Mar 19, 2009

But surely:

http://subdomain.domaintwo.com

Should actually read:

or something else,

because:

http://www.domainone.com/directory/anythingelse

and

should be forwarded to:

http://subdomain.domaintwo.com/somethingelse

and

http://subdomain.domaintwo.com/anythingelse

smah · Mar 19, 2009

I think that MrTBC is looking for something like:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$

http://subdomain.domaintwo.com/$

[R=301,L,NC]

By the way, what have you tried so far and what happens?

MrTBC · Mar 19, 2009

Thanks very much elgrandeperro and smah. Smah - I will give this a try.

MrTBC · Mar 25, 2009

Smah - thanks for your help and apologies for not replying sooner. It looks as if your code redirects ALL of the URLs on the first domain to the subdomain on the second domain.

What I'd actually like to do is only redirect URLs within one directory on the first domain, so:

http://www.domainone.com/directory/something

http://subdomain.domaintwo.com/something

Should redirect to:

http://subdomain.domaintwo.com/somethingelse

but:

http://www.domainone.com/anotherdirectory/something

shouldn't redirect.

Thanks very much.

elgrandeperro · Mar 25, 2009

Where did you put the code? If you put it in the config OR on the root, that is what is going to happen. I assumed you would put it in .htaccess of 'directory'. If it it is the config, it will need a tweak.

MrTBC · Mar 25, 2009

Sorry elgrandeperro. I'm using a CMS so my "directories" aren't actually directories, they're just URLs created on the fly.

I guess by trying to simplify the question I made it more complicated.

RobJordan · Mar 25, 2009

Looks like you have a lot of variables at work here. A few questions.

Are domainone and subdomain hosted on the same Apache instance?
If so, are you using virtual hosts?
If so, do you have a separate virtual host for each for both domainone and subdomain?

I see that you have two examples /something and /somethingelse. Will you have more than two folders that you need to match? If so, are you planning to create a rule for each folder? The reason I'm asking is there are both hard coded and possible dynamic solutions to the redirect you are trying to implement.

Rob Jordan

RobJordan · Mar 25, 2009

# verify the rewrite engine is on
RewriteEngine On
# this is optional and limits the rule to the domain below
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domainone.com
# the contents inside the parens are sent to $1
RewriteRule ^/directory/(.*)

[R=301,L]

Rob

Rob Jordan

http://www.domainone.com/directory/anythingatall

RobJordan · Mar 25, 2009

Another thought. A redirect will show the subdomain the client's browser. The proxy option may be better suited if you want to mask the second domain from the end user. So in the example below, the user would see

in their browser, however they would get the contents of the URL

http://subdomain.domaintwo.com/anythingatall.

Here's the same rule as a proxy.

# verify the rewrite engine is on
RewriteEngine On
# this is optional and limits the rule to the domain below
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domainone.com
# the contents inside the parens are sent to $1
RewriteRule ^/directory/(.*)

[P]

Rob

Rob Jordan

http://www.domainone.com/directory/something

MrTBC · Mar 25, 2009

Thanks Robert, I've tried your first solution and it won't work I'm afraid - it still goes to the URL on domainone.com

To answer your questions:
1. The two domains are hosted completely separately.
2. All URLS are in the format:

http://www.domainone.com/directory/somethingelse2

http://www.domainone.com/directory/anything

http://www.domainone.com/directory/somethingelse555

With no additional "/" symbols after directory/

3. There is no need for a Proxy thanks.

RobJordan · Mar 25, 2009

This should work then. Since the configs are separate, you shouldn't need the RewriteCond. I'm assuming you are placing this in your apache.conf file.

# you may also want to debug your rules with a log
RewriteLog /your/log/location/rewrite_log
RewriteLogLevel 9

# the contents inside the parens are sent to $1
RewriteRule ^/directory/(.*)

[R=301,L]

Rob

Rob Jordan

http://subdomain.domain2.com/

MrTBC · Mar 25, 2009

I've tried lots of possibilities and the only one that's come close is:

redirect 301 /directory/

The only problem with this is that:

http://www.domainone.com/directory/something

is converted to:

http://subdomain.domaintwo.com/directory/something

MrTBC · Mar 25, 2009

By the way the URLs contain some symbols - ? ( )

e.g.

http://www.domainone.com/directory/abc?x(111111)y(222222)z(333333)

Is this relevant?

RobJordan · Mar 25, 2009

Apache treats anything to the right of the ? in the request as query. The ? and query will be passed along with the redirect unless you explicitly tell apache not to pass along the query by placing a ? at the end of the target redirect.

example of the same rewrite rule, however the ? at the end will truncate the ? and anything after that on the redirect.

# the contents inside the parens are sent to $1
RewriteRule ^/directory/(.*)

? [R=301,L]

Rob

Rob Jordan