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I’ve been trying to get a subdomain to resolve to a subdirectory.  i.e., ‘foobar.mydomain.net’ resolves to ‘mydomain.net/foobar.mydomain.net’.  I’m using the following mod_rewrite rule:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foobar.mydomain.net [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !foobar.mydomain.net/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /foobar.mydomain.net/$1 [L]

This correctly rewrites my request.  However, upon landing at the page, I am repeatedly presented with our ‘Access Denied’ page, no matter how many times I log in correctly.  I know it’s landing at the correct page because when I change the access settings on the landing template, the change is reflected in ‘foobar.mydomain.net’s behavior.

mydomain.net/foobar.mydomain.net/index.php is a clone of mydomain.net/index.php, with all applicable path settings updated, and appropriate template group, template, and homepage_entry_id values assigned.  Navigating directly to mydomain.net/foobar.mydomain.net behaves correctly, it’s just this redirection that has ExpressionEngine confused.  Any help would be appreciated.

Hello rblitadmin,

I am sorry to hear you are running into this problem.

We currently only support one .htaccess configuration.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
      RewriteEngine On

      # Removes index.php
      RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

      # If 404s, “No Input File” or every URL returns the same thing
      # make it /index.php?/$1 above (add the question mark)
</IfModule>

That 500 error is a clue, that’s the server being angry. There will be clues in the system logs. That would be a great place to start.

If you would like, I can move this thread to the Community Help Forum. I know some people run with highly modified, some of them may be able to help you tweak that htaccess file.

Please let me know your thoughts!

Cheers,

That would be helpful, I’d appreciate it if you’d move it to the Community Help Forum.  Thanks for your help.

Hello rblitadmin,

I will do that. Sorry I could not be of more help.

Cheers,