Comments on: mod_rewrite help needed

By: Erki Esken

Erki Esken — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:52:53 +0000

What version of Apache are you using? mod_rewrite differs between 1.3, 2.0 and 2.2 a bit. Also do you have access to error log, maybe something is listed there that shows what’s wrong. I ran this same rewrite rule in windows Apache 2.0 (not in .htaccess file, instead in vhost config) and it worked as expected.

By: trib

trib — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:50:02 +0000

[quote comment=”9831”]Oh, if you vhost where you’ll use this rewrite block serves that same www site as well, then you need another condition to exclude www domain.[/quote]@Erki - my friend, that gives me 500 errors… Any ideas?

By: trib

trib — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:33:09 +0000

[quote comment=”9830”]Are you sure you want to mod_rewrite? Redirecting with a .htaccess in your subdomain would do the trick nicely:

Redirect permanent / http://www.acidlabs.org/trac/quoteNope. None of the subdomains exist physically and I?m on a shared host where I don?t get to play that game. So, I want the subdomains to end up at a physical subdirectory. Not ideal, but good enough.

By: Erki Esken

Erki Esken — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:03:18 +0000

Oh, if you vhost where you’ll use this rewrite block serves that same www site as well, then you need another condition to exclude www domain.

Something like:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.] ).example.com$
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.example.com/%1/ [R,L]

By: Jan gorman

Jan gorman — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:02:48 +0000

Are you sure you want to mod_rewrite? Redirecting with a .htaccess in your subdomain would do the trick nicely:

Redirect permanent / http://www.acidlabs.org/trac

By: Erki Esken

Erki Esken — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:00:43 +0000

This one should do it:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.] ).example.com$
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.example.com/%1/ [R,L]

Just change the example.com there to your domain.

Right now it will match only requests coming to http://trac.example.com/, but not http://trac.example.com/something/else/. If you want to pass on the path too then use:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.] ).example.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/%1/$1 [R,L]

By: Steve Webster

Steve Webster — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:00:26 +0000

Take a look at the following forum post. I think it has all the information you need… http://forum.modrewrite.com/viewtopic.php?t=2149&sid=a03dbb5eb05348be32042234a656210b