Comments on: How can I setup dynamic sub domains?

Question: How can I setup dynamic sub domains?

Vantech — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:09:49 -0800

Sub-sub domains with mod_rewrite - can it be done?

I'm setting up a bunch of domains that follow a consistent naming structure (category/subcategory/file.html). I've setup dynamic wildcards on these domains, and I know how to handle pathing dynamically via PHP, but I'm really interested in setting up a solution like this:

user enters http://subcategory.category.domain.com/index.html, which rewrites to domain.com/category/sucategory/index.html, without changing the browser path.

As an added level of complexity, i'd like to be able to use drupal on some of the subpaths, so I need to be able to honor their htaccess to rewrite their query string.

Any help would be much appreciated, oh tech gods of Mefi!

By: PuGZ

PuGZ — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:05:02 -0800

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}<>%{REQUEST_URI} ^([^.]+)\.vantech\.com(:80)?<>/([^/]*) [NC]

RewriteCond %1<>%3 !^(.*)<>\1$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*) /%1/$1 [L]

That ought to work, but replace vantech.com with your site as required.

By: Vantech

Vantech — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:26:28 -0800

Great reply PuGZ.

I'm running into trouble with the above ruleset however. It's throwing a 500.

On sub.sub domains - it isn't working at all. If the folder exists, it throws the above mentioned server 500. Any ideas?

By: Vantech

Vantech — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:28:29 -0800

As expected... it's throwing a mod_rewrite: maximum number of internal redirects reached. to the error_log

By: PuGZ

PuGZ — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 03:01:28 -0800

D'oh, I posted that without properly reading your question. Give me a little while!