Best way to redirect a path to a subdomain PHP-CGI?

etienneh

I have a wordpress site <subdomain>.<mysite>.com and I want to make all the links accessible from <mysite>.com/<subdomain>. What's the best way to accomplish this?

As I understand, I probably can't set this up in the Opalstack control panel as a domain with the routes routing from /<subdomain> to the wordpress app in addition to a site set up purely with the subdomain pointing to the app, because wordpress only supports one url.

So my thought is then just to HTTP 302 everyone who visits <mysite>.com/<subdomain> by editing the .htaccess file and using something like:

RedirectMatch "^/subdomain(.*)" "https://<subdomain>.<mysite.com>$1"

This seems to work. Is this the best way? Ideally a solution would be opaque to the user (i.e. no redirect), but this functions...

sean

etienneh to do this without a redirect you could instead do a proxy rewrite like:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^subdomain/(.*)$ https://subdomain.domain.com/$1 [P,L]

But there's a catch: it won't work on our managed Apache because we've got mod_proxy locked down for security.

If you want to use this technique then you'll need to run a private Apache stack with the configuration you need.

etienneh

sean Haha yup, I tried that and realized it didn't work. Good to know you can do it "privately" but then I guess you loose the wonderful security and management offered by opalstack!