.htaccess folder/subdomain rewrite rule

Question

I am going through a strange behaviour of .htaccess.

I am writing a rule of .htaccess to convert the below url :

I want to convert the following URL (where site is variable.)

www.xyz.com/domain/site

to

site.xyz.com/

Note that /site is generated at runtime. (Created by user)

But my rule is not working.

MY CODE

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.xyz.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?([a-z0-9-]+).xyz.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) nono.html?sm=%2 [NC,QSA]

Answer 1

Your current rule appears to "sort of" do the opposite of what you are asking in the question, but with an extra twist. ie. a URL for the form site.xyz.com/something would be internally rewritten to site.xyz.com/nono.html?sm=site . (?)

To redirect www.xyz.com/domain/site to site.xyz.com/ , as you've stated, then you could do something like:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(xyz\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^domain/([^/]+)$ http://$1.%1/ [R=302,L]

Change the 302 (temporary) redirect to 301 (permanent) when you are sure this is working OK. Or test with browser caching disabled. ( 301 redirects are otherwise cached by the browser, so can make testing problematic.)

Answer 2

I got your issue.

your re-write rule is just opposite..

use this for your exact problem

and it will work

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}   ^(www\.)?xyz.com/domain/(.+)$(.*)
RewriteRule  (.*)  https://$1.xyz.com/  [L]