htaccess redirect keeping original URL

[naborsapts]

Hello there!

All the information I've found here in the forum and elsewhere Re: htaccess redirect talks about redirecting a specific directory or file to another directory or file or URL. Examples:

Redirect*/*http://www.domain2.com = redirects any files in the original domain to the same files in domain2 (keeping original file structure)

Redirect /* http://www.domain2.com = redirects any files in the original domain to the index page of domain2 (does not keep original structure)

Redirect /subdirectory1 /subdirectory2 = redirects any files/subdirectories in subdirectory1 to subdirectory2 (keeping original file structure)

What I need is the following:

I have a second domain name (domain2.com) that's pointing to my main account (domain1.com). I want to redirect any requests for domain2.com to a file in a subdirectory within domain1, but I don't want to rewrite the URL in the address bar (I want the "true" original URL to appear).

Is the following the correct syntax?

Redirect http://*.domain2.com http://www.domain1.com/subdirectory/file.html

(The asterisk is because I want both www.domain2.com and domain2.com to redirect to the same file in domain1.)

Thanks for your help.

You might try this:

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain2.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !mychatfolder/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain1.com/subfolder/$1 [L]

Let us know if this works for you.

[Jeff321]

I used this code:



Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain2.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subdirectory/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subdirectory/$1 [L]


If you want a specific file, you should be able to replace the last line with something like this (I have not tested this though):

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subdirectory/file.html$1 [L]