Wildcard subdomain and Masking with htaccess

[mcdsoftware]

Hey guys,

 

I've been trying out different things for several days now and have finally decided to ask for help.

 

So here's the situation, we have a site (domain.com) and wildcard dns is setup and working properly. entering someone.domain.com displays domain.com's content so all is good there.

 

What I need is to process a different script (note: not redirect, the url must be masked), like if the request is dummy.domain.com, it should mask the url to stay the same but really process /public_html/partners/dummy. It works as intended until I try to visit a directory like dummy.domain.com/files where it redirects the browser to domain.com/partners/dummy/files

 

Here's what I have on public_html/.htaccess

 

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z0-9-]+).domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://domain.com/partners/%1/$1 [P,L]

 

If I try to visit a non-existent directory like dummy.domain.com/asdf, it works fine. The 404 says that it cant find the directory or file at partners/dummy/asdf so I'm thinking it must be something on the /files directory. Here's the htaccess under the files directory

 

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase files/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [L]

</IfModule>

 

Hope you guys can help me out.

 

Thanks!

[cags]

What happens if you remove 'http://domain.com/' from the start of the substitution, leaving you with...

 

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z0-9-]+).domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) partners/%1/$1 [P,L]

[mcdsoftware]

Thanks cags. I tried that but it just goes into an infinite loop. I think that's because the condition that checks for the wildcard subdomain is always true and it redirects it everytime to /partners/xxx/xxx. Is there any flag that I could use to stop the loop after the first request/redirect?

 

Thanks again.

[cags]

It's because the redirected url also matches the pattern (since .* matches everything).

 

You should be able to do something like this to avoid that...

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z0-9-]+).domain.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^partners/ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) partners/%1/$1 [P,L]

Should only rewrite patterns that done begin with the partners/ directory

[mcdsoftware]

Thanks so much cags! That worked beautifully