.htaccess Redirects

lieut_data · 6th February 2003, 03:13 PM

I am trying to forward all request to a subdomain of mine, to one of my "user"'s directories. i.e.

subdomain.domain.com -> domain.com/~user/

I have gotten
Redirect /subdomain.domain.com/index.htm http://www.domain.com/~user/

to work for URL's just entered as subdomain.domain.com, but I would like to utilize .htaccess's feature of redirecting all requests to a directory to another folder, supposedly accomplished via:

Redirect /subdomain.domain.com http://www.domain.com/~user/

Thus, a request to subdomain.domain.com/image1.png will be interpreted as www.domain.com/~user/image1.png

Unfortunately, I can't seem to get it to work (just spits out an error 404) Am I doing something wrong with the above code?

Thanks!

lieut_data · 6th February 2003, 03:14 PM

Would you believe how many tries it took to get this post working? Norton 2003: I just found that every time I tried to post it, it would create a security alert characteristic of a RAQ_HTaccess attack or something: LOL

All because it found the word in a post :-)

UH-Simon · 7th February 2003, 04:10 PM

Drop me an email simon@unitedhosting.co.uk and I'll take a look at the htaccess file. To be honest I've never really liked doing forward using htaccess, it's much easier to use framed forwarding with a meta refresh.

UH-Simon · 7th February 2003, 05:57 PM

The basic .htaccess contents for a simple redirect would be something like below:

Options +FollowSymlinks
Redirect / http://www.yourdomain.com/thefiletoload.html

This would also work for files. Say for example I wanted subdomain.yourdomain.com/image1.jpg to redirect to http://yourotherdomain.com/image2.jpg then the .htaccess would be as follows:

Options +FollowSymlinks
Redirect /image1.jpg http://www.yourdomain.com/image2.jpg

Their is no need to specify a path to where the .htaccess file is located.