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[arms]

so i added a subdomain on a shared host and it creates a folder that this suddomain points to.
i don't want this folder to be accessible as http://example.com/subdomain/ only as http://subdomain.example.com.

i have this piece of code that works via some fucking voodoo i don't understand to give a Gone error code but i'd prefer a 404.

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [NC,G]

help?

thanks

[cd1]

The RewriteCond line checks to see if the domain is NOT www.example.com or example.com... If it matches that rule, then it blocks access to it.

I'm kinda rusty in mod_rewrite, but there's a couple of things you could try.

Code:

RewriteRule ^ /404.php [NC]               #This will redirect to 404.php which is the script below to just return a 404 error.
or
RewriteRule   ^(.*)$   http://%1.example.com   [R=301,L]          #I believe this will do a 301 redirect from example.com/subdir to subdir.example.com

You may also need to take the '!' out of the rewritecond statement.  I think it might be matching the reverse of what you want to match.


404.php:

Code:

<?php
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
exit;
?>

[perkiset]

Another way to look at it is to see if the inbound URL is requesting the subDIR rather than the subDomain, and bounce accordingly. This little snippet assumes that you've not created a whole bunch of subdirs/subdomains, which would necessitate a little change. I think this is good, haven't tested it.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /subdomain/
RewriteRule /subdomain(.*)$ http://subdomain.domain.com$1 [L]

[arms]

thanks guys.
i just used perks redirect and it works.