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Looking for help in writing an .htaccess file to redirect to a new address with the url/query string intact --

User url input:

http://www.example.com/path?query-string=something

   -or-

http://example.com/path?query-string=something

   will be redirected to:

http://subdir.example.com/path?query-string=something
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You don't need to worry about the query string.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} example.com$ RewriteRule (.*)$ http://subdir.example.com/$1 [R]

This will only work with the .htaccess in the root

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  • You'll need a start-of-string anchor (^) to catch the whole URL-path (and not just the last path segment). But in a .htaccess context the URL-path matched by the RewriteRule pattern does not start with a slash. You'll also need a condition to check the Host header if the subdomain points to the same area on the filesystem, to prevent a redirect loop. Commented May 17, 2018 at 12:00
  • @MrWhite Quite correct, I never use .htaccess. But isn't the ".*" greedy enough to capture the entire URL now? Commented May 17, 2018 at 13:03
  • "But isn't the ".*" greedy enough to capture the entire URL now?" - yes, now that the slash has been removed. Commented May 17, 2018 at 13:57

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