How to create specific virtual domain

Server Config
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requests to domain.com should be handled by main.php file on the html root
requests to sub.domain.com should be handled by another main.php file which is under “sub” directory (sub/main.php)
so to achieve this, i tried a htaccess file like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^sub\\.domain\\.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/images/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/robots.txt
RewriteRule (.*) main.php [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub\\.domain\\.com
RewriteRule (.*) sub/main.php [L]

but ofcourse this is not working :slight_smile: only domain.com rewrite is working properly, but if i try to call sub.domain.com, i get 404 error. it’s not going to sub/main.php
i just need this specific subdomain. i searched the forum but there are dynamic subdomain threads…
yes i know i can solve this by creating the subdomain from cpanel. but i need to solve it via htaccess.
maybe the answer will help more people out there…

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any ideas anybody?

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ok, here is the correct answer:
htaccess should be

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^m\\.example\\.com$
RewriteRule ^ http://example.com/m%{REQUEST_URI} [L,P]

but now is there a server performance difference between this htaccess solution and creating subdomain via cpanel?

in this htaccess solution, i used proxy flag in RewriteRule, so it looks like a query is forwarded hiddenly to another http query.
and this can make an extra load to server. this is just a theory, please send your decisions :eye: