rewrite and redirecting to subdomain

[vexx]

Hey guys,

 

I'm in a bit of a situation. I want to change my rewrite rules for a folder to a subdomain and then redirect old rules to new ones (for SEO).

 

So basically I have this:

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^news/index([0-9-]+)\.html$ index.php?page=pressrelease_homepage&pn=$1
RewriteRule ^news/$ index.php?page=pressrelease_homepage
RewriteRule ^press/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)-([0-9-]+)\.html$ index.php?page=pressrelease_page&id=$2

 

I want to rewrite everything www.site.com/news to press.site.com and everything /press/ to press.site.com. After I do this, I want to redirect all old links to the new subdomain links. I tried several methods but I wasn't very successful.

 

Any help will be greatful!

[premiso]

In the code you posted, I do not see you redirecting to the subdomain, if you tried that post the code you tried so we can maybe see where you went wrong.

[vexx]

in the code I posted I didn't try..it's just the original code...I did have some attempts based on some suggestions I had but with no success. It's worth mentioning that I'm in my learning stage now and I would definitely love some help in this particular case

 

tnx!

[vexx]

so..if anyone can help..or guide me ...I really appreciate it

[handlegeek]

If you can give couple of examples of redirect you want to do - it would be better. Both /press and /news to press.site.com is kind of confusing.

 

A simple rewrite for example.com/press/something to press.example.com/something would be like the one below

 

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^press/(.*)$ http://sub.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

 

Believe you are expecting something different mentioning about old urls and new urls for SEO. Examples would illustrate better.

 

[vexx]

yep, I appoligize:

 

the homepage, so to speak, is www.site.com/news/  ... i want this press.site.com

All the links from the "news" section are www.site.com/press/press-name.html ...i want this press.site.com/press-name.html

 

Tnx alot!

[handlegeek]

Guess this will work for you

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^news http://press.example.com/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^press/(.*)$ http://press.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

[vexx]

that will work for redirecting the old urls to the new ones, but I kinda need the rewrite rule for the subdomain

 

Now I have this:

 

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^news/index([0-9-]+)\.html$ index.php?page=pressrelease_homepage&pn=$1

RewriteRule ^news/$ index.php?page=pressrelease_homepage

RewriteRule ^press/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)-([0-9-]+)\.html$ index.php?page=pressrelease_page&id=$2

 

and I need to rewrite the subdomain like this

 

RewriteRule ^press.site.com/index([0-9-]+)\.html$ index.php?page=pressrelease_homepage&pn=$1

RewriteRule ^press.site.com/$ index.php?page=pressrelease_homepage

RewriteRule ^press.site.com/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)-([0-9-]+)\.html$ index.php?page=pressrelease_page&id=$2

 

Evidently, those rewrite rules don't work..so that's why I need some help

 

Thanks again!

[handlegeek]

Unless I am misunderstanding what you are expecting, you can target your sub domain like this correct?

 

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ index.php?page=pressrelease_homepage [L]
RewriteRule ^index([0-9-]+)\.html$ index.php?page=pressrelease_homepage&pn=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)-([0-9-]+)\.html$ index.php?page=pressrelease_page&id=$2 [L]