.htaccess rewrite subdomain to directory

Question

Is it possible to use .htaccess to rewrite a sub domain to a directory?

Example:

• http://sub.domain.com/

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Answer 1

You can use the following rule in .htaccess to rewrite a subdomain to a subfolder:

RewriteEngine On

 # If the host is "sub.domain.com"
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub.domain.com$ [NC]
 # Then rewrite any request to /folder
 RewriteRule ^((?!folder).*)$ /folder/$1 [NC,L]

Line-by-line explanation:

  RewriteEngine on

The line above tells the server to turn on the engine for rewriting URLs.

  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub.domain.com$ [NC]

This line is a condition for the RewriteRule where we match against the HTTP host using a regex pattern. The condition says that if the host is sub.domain.com then execute the rule.

 RewriteRule ^((?!folder).*)$ /folder/$1 [NC,L]

The rule matches http://sub.domain.com/foo and internally redirects it to http://sub.domain.com/folder/foo.

Replace sub.domain.com with your subdomain and folder with name of the folder you want to point your subdomain to.