Mapping a secondary domain to a subdirectory using mod_rewrite - mod-rewrite

I am looking to map a secondary domain to a subfolder on my document root.
For example, if requests to the domain www.example.com map to my DocumentToot, then requests to www.exampletwo.com go to /sites/files/.
I am unable to accomplish a redirect from www.exampletwo.com/index.html to www.exampletwo.com/sites/files/index.html while making the URL still display www.exampletwo.com/index.html. Any ideas?

I believe you're looking for something like this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?exampletwo\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*) /sites/files/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.exampletwo.com/$1 [L,R]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?exampletwo\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.exampletwo.com/sites/files/$1 [L,P]
The P flag uses the proxy module, therefore the url is not changed (no redirect) on the client.

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"If request" in .htaccess?

I use rewrite condition to redirect website always to www. my code is:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.website\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.website.com/$1 [L,R=301]
I can't found on the internet how can i do request if in url '.com' i need it because the website must be also localy accessible.
For example: i found this, but i can't understand how can i implement it with my script.
Your current RewriteCond is correct for applying www. to website.com if it is not already present. To avoid the RewriteRule happening when working on localhost, you need an additional RewriteCond to check the host.
This is because the condition !^www\.example\.com$ matches any domain except www.example.com, which includes localhost.
# Only apply other conditions if not working on localhost
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !localhost [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
You can make it a little more dynamic in case you need to work with multiple domains (example.com, example.org) and transform each to www.example.com, www.example.org:
# If not on localhost
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !localhost [NC]
# and the domain does not begin www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
# Redirect to apply the www. to HTTP_HOST
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R=301]
Use caution when testing - your browser may cache old 301 redirects. You may need to change them to R=302 during testing and clear your browser cache. When you are satisfied it works, change it back to R=301.
That RewriteCond should already work for your case, the next rule is processed only if the condition matches, so that rule is not processed for localhost.

mod_rewrite: 2 files should always be SSL, the rest always HTTP

I want to ensure that a small number of URLs in my application are always served over SSL; the rest should always be served over HTTP.
My current mod_rewrite ruleset goes like this:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^/?account.html$ https://example.com/account.html [L]
RewriteRule ^/?checkout.html$ https://example.com/checkout.html [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/account.html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/checkout.html$
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/$1 [L]
The first file in each RewriteCond works OK (account.html in this example). The 2nd file doesn't work - the server is "redirecting in a way that will never complete".
Any ideas on how to make this work? In production there'll be more than 2 SSL-only URLs, likely 7 - 10.
Thanks
You must use R flag to redirect url
RewriteEngine On
# redirect account.html or checkout.html (if http) to https
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(account|checkout)\.html$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/%1.html [R,L]
# redirect other urls (if https) to http
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(account|checkout)\.html$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R,L]
Note: i used R flag, which performs a 302 redirect by default. Feel free to replace [R,L] by [R=301,L] when it works (301 redirect is a permanent redirect and is cached by browsers)

Rewrite subdomain to main domain for images only using htaccess

I have a domain, where everything except image\css etc. are handled by a single php file. However after a reorganisation, alot of images have been moved from sub-domains to the main domain. So I'm looking for a way to redirect all image\css files to the main domain if they were originally on one of the sub-domains. My current code is
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.png|\.jpg|\.gif|\.jpeg|\.ico|\.bmp|\.css|\.ts|\.js)$
RewriteRule !^index\.php$ /index.php [L]
I've tried a couple of ways to redirect it, but I seem to break on of the existing rules, whatever I try.
Thanks
The final solution I came up with
RewriteEngine On
# Check the request isn't for the main domain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain\.com$
# Check the request is for a static resource
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(png|jpg|gif|jpeg|ico|bmp|css|ts|js)$
# Redirect to main domain
RewriteRule (.*) http://domain\.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# if the request isn't for index.php,
# (invisibly) redirect to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.png|\.jpg|\.gif|\.jpeg|\.ico|\.bmp|\.css|\.ts|\.js)$
RewriteRule !^index\.php$ /index.php [L]
For information only. As really the credit goes to jon for the answer I just tweaked it for my needs.
If the URLs in your HTML still point to the subdomains, you'll need to setup htaccess redirects on those subdomains, not on the main domain, as the requests will still be going to the subdomains.
For example in /var/www/vhosts/sub.domain.com/httpdocs/.htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(png|jpg|gif|jpeg|ico|bmp|css|ts|js)$
RewriteRule (.*) http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
And in /var/www/vhosts/sub2.domain.com/httpdocs/.htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(png|jpg|gif|jpeg|ico|bmp|css|ts|js)$
RewriteRule (.*) http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
UPDATE
Based on your comment that Apache handles each subdomain as if it were the main one, try this:
RewriteEngine On
# Check the request isn't for the main domain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !(www\.)?domain\.com$
# Check the request is for a static resource
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(png|jpg|gif|jpeg|ico|bmp|css|ts|js)$
# Redirect to main domain
RewriteRule (.*) http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} not working

I am trying to redirect all requests coming in to the web server as http://portal.company.com/legacy to http://portal.company.com/wps/portal/public/legacy/legacyportlet with the following rule, but it is not working as expected.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^portal\.company\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/legacy$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wps/portal/public/legacy/legacyportlet$1 [NC,L,PT]
I have also tried
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^portal\.company\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/legacy /wps/portal/public/legacy/legacyportlet [NC,L,PT]
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
It doesn't look like your source or target URLs change in any way, so possibly you're better off using Apache's basic Redirect directive which just redirects one URL to another.
Use this rule:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^portal\.company\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^legacy/?$ /wps/portal/public/legacy/legacyportlet [NC,L]
Remember that in .htaccess RewriteRule doesn't match leading slash of URI.

mod_rewrite forward shortend URL

I am looking for a way to create a short URL path for a longer URL on my page
the long url is: domain.com/tagcloud/user.html?t=1234ABCD
i would like to offer a short version of the URL to easy access it:
domain.com/t/1234ABCD
I tried a few examples but I just don't get it how I could forward these rules.
RewriteRule ^(.*)/t/$ /tagcloud/user.html?t=$1 [L]
I am also using MODX so they already use rules.
in addition my htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Always use www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# The Friendly URLs part
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
I must keep the code snippets above in my htaccess file. The first one simply forwards http://domain.com requests to www.domain.com
The friendly URLs part is needed to translate the internal IDs of my CMS with the alias of the URL. This feature must remain because the entire site cannot be influencted by the changes I try to make in htaccess...
I simply would like to add a listener that only if the URL matches www.domain.com/t/abcd1234
Therefore I need something that identifies the www.domain.com/t/ URL
your help is much appreciated
Try this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/t/.*
RewriteRule ^t/(.*)$ /tagcloud/user.html?t=$1 [R=301,L]

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