I have been working on this problem for a 3 solid days and posted on several forums with no leads.
Problem:
When a user types in SUBDOMAIN.domain.com I want it to stay that way in the URL window.
The real location of these files is domain.com/apps/SUBDOMAIN
I know that this is possible using a .domain.com DNS A record (which I have done) and a .htaccess rule.
This is my .htaccess rule at the moment
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?([a-z0-9-]+)\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule !^([a-z0-9-]+)($|/) /apps/%2%{REQUEST_URI} [PT,L]
Ok, this almost works.
Typing in subdomain.domain.com is reading from domain.com/apps/subdomain
BUT something is going horribly wrong.
Visiting subdomain.domain.com/image.jpg (AKA domain.com/apps/subdomain) works fine
Visiting subdomain.domain.com/anyfolder/image.jpg (AKA domain.com/apps/subdomain) returns a 404
Looking at the Cpanel Error log shows this
[Thu Nov 18 20:48:50 2010] [error] [client ***.**.***.***] File does not exist: /home/domain/public_html/images, referer: http://subdomain.domain.com/apps/subdomain/
So it appears to be correctly rewriting on a first directory basis but anything lower then that gets sent back to public_html root
All help and advice would be greatly appreciated
Thanks,
Tim
PS. I had to remove the proper hyperlink formatting as I am a new user.