.htaccess Redirect Subdomain to External URL

Question

We need to run a few subdomains from our main site and we need to point these to external sites that deal with the admin required.

I simply need to redirect a subdomain to an external URL using .htaccess and also any advise about where to put it in the .htaccess file e.g. right at the top, as i know this effects certain rewrite rules.

I won't write what i think it should be as this just leads the answer down a specific route.

Cheers Guys,

Really appreciate it.

Dan

score 36 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 21 '12 at 13:01

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If you are redirecting a subdomain to another domain then there shouldn't be anything else in the .htaccess file other than this.

 # This will redirect a subdomain to another domain
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursubdomain\.yourdomain\.com$ [NC]
 RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [L,R]

answered Dec 21 '12 at 13:01

Simon Hayter

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This did not work, I have tried this exact method previously but for some reason it wont seem to take. I am not sure why?? Any other ideas? – Dan Dec 27 '12 at 09:34
This works great, but I was wondering...do you know a way to do this without changing the URL? So the page redirects but still keeps `yoursubdomain.yourdomain.com` in the address bar. – jlewkovich Jun 09 '15 at 03:22
@JLewkovich there is no way to do that. The idea of the address bar to is to tell people where they are. However You could iframe the other site. – Simon Hayter Jun 09 '15 at 08:57
Line 5-6 doesn't works. Are the first definitions affecting that. https://gist.github.com/santosh/134f7f3c36a6dd7f11f1 – Santosh Kumar Jun 18 '15 at 20:14
@JLewkovich, this is done in the answer provided [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23027847/htaccess-specific-url-to-different-port). You'll simply have to tweak it a bit for the subdomain. – Chris - Jr Jul 24 '17 at 16:45

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 18 '15 at 22:36

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Here's the code I used and it worked for me:

# BEGIN CUSTOM Redirects
# This will redirect a subdomain to another domain
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^pw\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://www.example.com [L,R

edited Jun 18 '15 at 22:36

Simon Hayter

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answered Feb 11 '15 at 04:20

King R

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 26 '17 at 02:25

I tried both options but didn't work until I remove the $ and [L,R] this is the code that worked for me

 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain\.domain\.com$ [NC]
 RewriteRule ^(.*) http://newdomain.com.ar/?param=data&uparam2=data

hope it helps.

.htaccess Redirect Subdomain to External URL

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