Redirect from main domain to subdomain not working

Hi there I am trying to redirect from mysite.com/mylink to mylink.mysite.com. I have set this up through cPanel Redirect (in the same way I have several other redirects, which work fine) but it is not redirecting. The subdomain has a separate document root set up and the files in the two locations are not the same so I am positive that it is not redirecting and leaving the domain name as /mylink. My .htaccess as a result of this setting looks like:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mysite\.com$
RewriteRule ^mylink\/?(.*)$ "https\:\/\/mylink\.mysite\.com\/$1" [R=301,L]

Any ideas as to what could be going wrong? I tried adding a 'simple' redirect (i.e. to another page, rather than a subdomain) and that worked fine. Many thanks in advance, Richard

cPanelMichael

October 06, 2014 18:15

Hello :) Have you tried configuring the redirect to the specific page (e.g. index.html/index.php) to see if that makes a difference? Thank you.

rjbourne

October 07, 2014 08:26

Hi Michael I've just tried that to no avail I'm afraid. Any ideas? Thanks.

October 07, 2014 09:32

Hi Michael Thanks for your help but I've found the problem - there was a rogue .htaccess file hanging around, I removed that and all is working as expected now.

October 07, 2014 15:09

I am happy to see you have resolved the issue. Thank you for updating us with the outcome.

Redirect from main domain to subdomain not working

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