RewriteEngine redirects to subdomain instead of Rewriting

milktea

• January 30, 2024 22:51
• Edited

• Recently switched to Jupiter theme -> this caused the Alias menu to disappear.
• I have `mydomain.abc` as my primary domain (there's no way to change the directory of a primary domain but I don't want my http files to reside in /home/***/public_html)
• I'd like to use it as an alias to show my subdomain xyz.mydomain.abc (this is in /home/***/public_html/apps/xyz)
• The only option I found to do this is by using .htaccess that uses RewriteEngine
• The RewriteEngine doesn't do its job. Instead of loading the page mydomain.abc, it redirects to the url xyz.mydomain.abc. I don't want this behavior, I want no redirect but I want to show xyz.mydomain.abc while accessing mydomain.abc in the browser's url.
• If the .htaccess is present, an entry in the Redirects page (https://cpanel:port/session/frontend/jupiter/mime/redirect.html) is created and when I attempt to delete it, it says successful but upon checking the redirect rule is still there (maybe because the .htaccess is still present that's why the entry persists)

How do I go about this?

My domain and hosting are both from GoDaddy.
Here is my .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.abc$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.abc$
RewriteRule (.*) "https://xyz.mydomain.abc/$1" [NC,L]

• 

  MilesWeb

  • January 31, 2024 06:31

  I understand that you're facing issues with the alias menu disappearing after switching to the Jupiter theme. Additionally, you want to configure an alias to display a subdomain without redirection. Here's a revised explanation:

  To resolve this, you may need to modify the .htaccess file to achieve the desired behavior without redirection. This modification should display the content of xyz.mydomain.abc when accessing mydomain.abc without triggering a redirection.

   
  Here's an adjusted version:

  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.abc$ [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.abc$
  RewriteRule ^$ /apps/xyz/index.html [L]

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• 

  milktea

  • January 31, 2024 20:00

  MilesWeb thank you for your reply.

  I went back to this question because I've figured it out myself and I was going to edit that I've fixed the issue. To my surprise, we have the same answer, more or less. My working solution is:

  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.abc$ [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.abc$
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /apps/xyz/$1 [L]

  Thank you for taking time to respond. Cheers!

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