Redirects not working on subdomains

**Joshua Clinard** · 03-21-2004, 02:41 PM

Redirects on my subdomains are not working. I have

Redirect permanent /subdomain/onefile.html
http://www.domain.com/anotherfile.html

It give a 500 server error when I type in the file name.

**Galen** · 03-21-2004, 08:01 PM

Hehe, I've never been able to get that to work. No biggie, imo. Subdomain redirects don't keep the subdomain name in tact in the address bar anyway, so just use a META tag redirect.

Just put this between the <head> tags of onefile.html:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh"
CONTENT="0;URL=http://www.domain.com/anotherfile.html">

Problem solved

**Joshua Clinard** · 03-22-2004, 06:45 AM

I have several to do, and I don't want to create new files for each one. I guess I'll have to do it this way for now, but if anyone knows a better way to do it, please let me know.

**Galen** · 03-22-2004, 09:53 PM

Well, it's not so much trouble as it sounds. Just create an index.html with nothing but

<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh"
CONTENT="0;URL=http://www.domain.com/anotherfile.html">
</head>
</html>

No need to even have a body if the only thing it's doing is redirecting. Just adjust the url in the index.html file as neccesary and copy it to each subdoman directory that you want to redirect from.

Ron · 03-22-2004, 10:20 PM

how about in .htaccess

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase   /<pathtofile>  # if you're not in your docroot directory
RewriteRule   ^somefile\.html$  anotherfile.html [R=301,L]

Ron · 03-24-2004, 01:33 PM

Any luck?

**Vin DSL** · 03-24-2004, 05:40 PM

Originally posted by Ron
Any luck?

Yeah, I got lucky last night. Women! One day they want to kill you, the next day they want to eat you with a spoon.

**Galen** · 03-24-2004, 07:53 PM

...eat you with a spoon

Just make sure there's no knife in her other hand

**Joshua Clinard** · 03-31-2004, 01:34 PM

I tried putting the re-directs in the htaccess of the subdomain, and that didn't work either.

How would that rewrite rule work? would I put that in the main sites .htaccess file, or the .htacess file in the subdomain?

Ron · 03-31-2004, 03:56 PM

It needs to be in the directory where the object of the redirect lives, not just the main directory. If that doesn't *HAPPEN* to be the docroot, then you need the RewriteBase line.

Methinks

**G.Bloke** · 03-31-2004, 04:24 PM

Edit: Nevermind, late night - didn't read the original post well enough.

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