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I have one EE installation which contains three sites for my client (let’s call them departments A, B and C). EE is installed on the main domain which hosts department A. The pages for departments B and C are all located in 2 different templategroups. The url-structure is as follows:
- department A: http://www.department-a.com
- department B: http://www.department-a.com/dept-b
- department C: http://www.department-a.com/dept-c

I am looking for a redirect script for my .htaccess file which rewrites the urls as follows:
- department A: http://www.department-a.com (no change needed)
- department B: http://www.department-b.com
- department C: http://www.department-c.com

Any help is welcome!

The supported way, as it were, would be to use the Multi Site Manager. Otherwise, you could probably do it with the use of some mod_rewrite in .htaccess.

Can anyone advise how to use mod_rewrite in .htaccess to achieve this?

Can anyone advise how to use mod_rewrite in .htaccess to achieve this?

Depending on your server setup, .htaccess may not be necessary. If all sites are on the same server at the same root level, it’s easy using path.php and it’s mostly self explanatory.

Install EE in a directory as per normal and point one domain to that install. Set up other directories on the same level (not required, but easier), and copy the EE index.php and path.php files to each directory. Point the domains to the respective directories. Then, edit the path.php file in each directory to point to EE’s system files and the respective weblog for each.

$system_path = "../mysitesystem/";
$template_group = "mysite";
$template = "index";
$site_url = "http://mysite.com/";
$site_index = "index.php";
$site_404 = "";

In other words, it’s doable. However, MSM makes management remarkably easier as you grow the number of sites and domains. Highly recommended.