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Using .htaccess for dynamic subdomains - El Forum - 11-24-2008
[eluser]psdtocode[/eluser]
Hello,
I'm curious how I would setup my server to use dynamic subdomains. I have full access to http.conf, and the entire server. I want to acheive the effect of WordPress MU, if you know how that works.
The site I'm creating allows people to create blog-like sites under my parent domain, so it would be http://sample.mydomain.com/. The domain would then route to a URL such as:
Code:
http://mydomain.com/site_manager/index.php/site/view/sampleI've gotten it to be http://mydomain.com/site/view/sample (couldn't get rid of the site/view/ part) for basic testing, however I am wanting to reroute the URL's to how they would be on the live site.
Examples:
Code:
http://sample.mydomain.com/Code:
http://mydomain.com/site_manager/index.php/site/view/sampleCode:
http://sample.mydomain.com/post/123Code:
http://mydomain.com/site_manager/index.php/site/view/sample/post/123Horrible URL structure in my opinion, but I don't know how else I could structure it.
Thanks,
Andrew
Using .htaccess for dynamic subdomains - El Forum - 11-24-2008
[eluser]DPrevite[/eluser]
In the past I've put this in my config file:
Code:
// May not be the best place to put this, but...
$URL = explode('.', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
$config['subdomain'] = $URL[0];
unset($URL);
$config['base_url'] = 'http://' . $config['subdomain'] . '.yourdomain.com';And then the rest of the code uses the subdomain name in the where clause when it does select statements, etc using:
Code:
$this->config->item('subdomain');Using .htaccess for dynamic subdomains - El Forum - 11-24-2008
[eluser]Thorpe Obazee[/eluser]
may be you should also see if the user did use a subdomain? I haven't actually tried your solution but I might try it for my pet project.
Using .htaccess for dynamic subdomains - El Forum - 11-24-2008
[eluser]DPrevite[/eluser]
I had a .htaccess file that forced the www to show up, so if you went to http://example.com it would redirect to http://www.example.com and then the subdomain would be www.
If you wanted it to work without you could just add a check to see if there is a subdomain or not and then set the basedir differently.
Using .htaccess for dynamic subdomains - El Forum - 11-25-2008
[eluser]uptime[/eluser]
[quote author="DPrevite" date="1227607306"]I had a .htaccess file that forced the www to show up, so if you went to http://example.com it would redirect to http://www.example.com and then the subdomain would be www.
If you wanted it to work without you could just add a check to see if there is a subdomain or not and then set the basedir differently.[/quote]
That would do:
Code:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
## Force www;
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>Using .htaccess for dynamic subdomains - El Forum - 11-26-2008
[eluser]Phil Sturgeon[/eluser]
Something like the following would do both.
If it doesnt start with www. and it has a subdomain, send it to whatever URL you like. Otherwise, make sure it has www. at the start and send it to the main site.
Code:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# Redirect to user blog (with any trailing path)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z0-9]).example.com(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/blog/user/$1$2 [R=301,L]
## Otherwise, force www;
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>Using .htaccess for dynamic subdomains - El Forum - 11-26-2008
[eluser]Phil Sturgeon[/eluser]
Afterthought, if you have mod_proxy enabled in your apache httpd.conf you can add the P flag to those rules to keep it using the subdomains instead of a 301 redirect. Try this:
Code:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_proxy.c>
# Redirect to user blog (with any trailing path)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z0-9]).example.com(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/blog/user/$1$2 [P,L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_proxy.c>
# Redirect to user blog (with any trailing path)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z0-9]).example.com(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/blog/user/$1$2 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
## Otherwise, force www;
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]This will cause unknown and untested issues with the base_url. Can someone try this out and let me know what happens? No internet at home... STILL!
Using .htaccess for dynamic subdomains - El Forum - 11-26-2008
[eluser]uptime[/eluser]
thepyromaniac:
Why don't you check it at home?
Local Apache + hosts file... :-)
Using .htaccess for dynamic subdomains - El Forum - 11-27-2008
[eluser]Phil Sturgeon[/eluser]
Never got round to setting up mod_redirect on my local setup. Tried once a few months back, then decided iI was busy enough with paid work. REALLY need to have another crack at that one >.<
Its normally easy enough, but for some reason I decided to try and slap the baked-in Leopard Apache setup into shape, instead of just installing MAMP. Why oh why...
hut: Anyway, does this work for you?
Using .htaccess for dynamic subdomains - El Forum - 01-26-2009
[eluser]_sty_[/eluser]
Code:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# Redirect to user blog (with any trailing path)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z0-9]).example.com(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/blog/user/$1$2 [R=301,L]
## Otherwise, force www;
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>Hi guys could anybody assist how to combine these solution specified above with the default CI htaccess for excluding index.php from url
Code:
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|static|js|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css│js│jpg│jpeg│gif)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L,QSA]I.e. I mean how to collect it in a one file?
Thanks beforehand!