I have a subdomain setup as onlinedev.domain.com
I need to use htaccess to rewrite to domain.com/online_content, while still showing onlinedev.domain.com in the address bar (SSL is for onlinedev.domain.com).
this is what I currently have that is very close:
php_flag display_errors off
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} onlinedev\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}<->%{REQUEST_URI} ^(www\.)?([^.]+).*<->/([^/]+) [NC]
RewriteCond %2<->%3 !^(.*)<->\1$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+) /%2/$1 [L]
This correctly rewrites to domain.com/onlinedev, but if I try to change the RewriteRule to:
RewriteRule ^(.+) /online_content/$1 [L]
I get an error
I understand that there are typically better ways to do this subdomain work, but without getting into server config and DNS details, I need to do it with htaccess.
And yes, I do need to rewrite to a directory that has a different name than the subdomain.
Best Answer
Well, I figured it out. The issue was that I was causing an infinite loop. Once the rewrite had happened, it was still trying to rewrite to the directory. Here is my new htaccess that took care of it:
Notice that I added a check to make sure that the REQUEST_URI is not the name of the directory I am rewriting to.