HaLo2FrEeEk Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 Hey, I moved all the files from a certain folder on my main domain, to a new subdomain. Unfortunately since the site's been in operation for 3 years now there are plenty of links around the web that point to the old location. I wanted to set up an .htaccess file that would take all requests for files in the folder and send them to the subdomain, where all the files will be moved to. I had it working with a subfolder test, but when I tried to change it a little I couldn't get it to work how I needed it. Basically the old folder was called /movies, and the new subdomain is media.infectionist.com. If, for example, there is a link to the file testvid.wmv that points to the /movies folder, I want it to automatically redirect to media.infectionist.com/testvid.wmv. I also have a subfolder in the movies folder that I want to go to a different subdomain than the other files are going to, I want this subfolder, /cutscenes, to go to cutscenes.infectionist.com instead. Here is the .htaccess I have so far: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule cutscenes/(.*)\.(wmv|mp4|mov|png|jpg) http://cutscenes.infectionist.com/$1\.$2 RewriteRule (.*)\.(wmv|mp4|mov|png|jpg|scr|exe) http://media.infectionist.com/$1\.$2 So any request that tries to get a file inside the /cutscenes folder should be directed to cutscenes.infectionist.com, and any other request should go to media.infectionist.com, right? Well, it's not working. Since I've already deleted the files from the /cutscenes folder, they're just giving a 404 error. When I try to call a file from the regular /movies folder, it just plays it from that folder and doesn't redirect to the media subdomain. Why is this happening? I thought I had it in the right order, but it shouldn't matter because either way I have it it still doesn't work. Can someone PLEASE help me figure this out! I really want to clean up my movies folder. In fact it'd be perfect if I could just delete the movies folder alltogether and have this .htaccess reside in the root of my main domain. Thank you all in advance. Edit: if I remove the RewriteRule (.*)\.(wmv|mp4|mov|png|jpg|scr|exe) http://media.infectionist.com/$1\.$2 line from the .htaccess then the cutscene redirect works...but not the other movies. If I remove the RewriteRule cutscenes/(.*)\.(wmv|mp4|mov|png|jpg) http://cutscenes.infectionist.com/$1\.$2 line then the media redirect works, but not cutscenes. Is there a way to get them to work together?!? The only thing I can think of is to have this .htaccess redirect all requests to media, then have another htaccess in the media subdomain that redirects cutscene requests to the cutscene subdomain, but that seems like it would be overkill. Is that what I have to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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