Domain redirection

Aruffell · 14 Apr 2009 at 14:59

Got a page at http://blah/support and wanted http://support.blah to point to it which i got it to do but when you go to http://support.blah it automagically changes in the address bar to http://blah/support.

How do i stop this and so it keeps the subdomain in the address bar?

Andy

bigdm · 14 Apr 2009 at 15:36

how are u doing the redirect? htaccess?

Redirect 301 /support/page.html http://subdomain.yoursite.com/page.html

should work,

SourChipmunk · 14 Apr 2009 at 22:58

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>My Website</title>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.mywebsite.com">
</head>

<body>

</body>
</html>

That doesn't work for you as your index.html file?

Inquisitor · 14 Apr 2009 at 23:16

You could also use a symlink if your host allows it:

Code:

ln -s ~/path/to/blah/support ~/path/to/support.blah

I find this easier, personally. No need to mess around with .htaccess files.

Raist said:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>My Website</title>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.mywebsite.com">
</head>

<body>

</body>
</html>

That doesn't work for you as your index.html file?

That's not a good solution as a) it only works for the domain root and b) it's not transparent to the user.

Aruffell · 15 Apr 2009 at 10:34

It's a wordpress site so the page is set in a database and not an actual file as such so i don't think i can add that the index file so i need to somehow edit the htaccess i'm guessing.

I'm with Vidahost and Dominic said it can't be done really

Help.

Andy

Inquisitor · 15 Apr 2009 at 11:14

Do you have SSH access to your account?

Beansprout · 15 Apr 2009 at 14:16

A symlink wouldn't work as it's not a file which is being accessed - it's Wordpress running mod_rewrite on the /support URL.

For what it's worth it doesn't matter a huge amount either way as it's only a cosmetic change - either URL will get people where they need to go and it's the same domain