Subdomains with mod_rewrite

[Dean C]

Information

• I have a subdomain: lala.example.com which points to example.com/somedir
• I have a .htaccess file within my example.com/somedir which contains:
  
  

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule ^([0-9A-Za-z\-\/]+)/?$ cat.php?p=$1 [L]

• When I go to lala.example.com it loads the correct index.php file which resides within example.com/somedir
• When I go to lala.example.com/StupidDir it gives me a 404 saying that the file doesn't exist (cat.php that is).

So from the above information I'm assuming mod_rewrite works a lot different when used with subdomains ?

[dklynn]

Dean,

WHAT DIRECTORY is cat.php located in?

Just remember that Apache thinks it's in the lala subdomain and knows NOTHING of example.com so, if cat is located in example.com's DocumentRoot then it's OUTSIDE the webspace of lala.

Regards,

DK

[Dean C]

cat.php is located in example.com/somedir

[dklynn]

Dean,

Hmmm, someone else (lilliman?) found a similar subdirectory problem.

Would you please try changing the RewriteRule to eliminate the escapes (which are NOT required in the square brackets):

RewriteRule ^([0-9A-Za-z/-]+)/?$ cat.php?p=$1 [L]

Then see what happens when you get rid of the optional slash, too?

Regards,

DK

[Dean C]

I get the same problem The thing is when I go to lala.example.com/cat.php it loads. I've even tried putting the full path /var/www/html/somedir in my rewriterule to no effect

[dklynn]

Dean,

It the URL retaining lala.example.com? If so, an e-mail to Apache.org might be in order (they can't fix it if they "don't know it's broke").

Do you have some overriding action directed by www.example.com's mod_rewrite? If you have redirects in there, turn them off (for a test only) with RewriteEngine Off before your rewrite rules.

Regards,

DK

[Dean C]

In the end I managed to find a solution after spending the last hour on google. I had to use RewriteBase /

I'd tried RewriteBase full/path/to/it

Silly how it's something so silly eh

[dklynn]

Dean,

Hmmm, you mean that directive actually does something useful? Horrors!

Okay, if that's in the lala directory AND called as part of the lala subdomain, then I guess it's use is to remind Apache of those facts - to anchor it there!

Thanks for that feedback!

Regards,

DK