Alias and subdomain!

[yull27 Profile]

Hi there!

I got a prob.
I got my rules that are well working for redirecting and hidding parameters as an alias/subdomain as below:

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mywebsite.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+).mywebsite.com
RewriteRule ^$ /dir/index.php?sd=%1 [NC]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mywebsite\.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.mywebsite\.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/?$ /dir/index.php?sd=%1&pg=$1 [NC,L]


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mywebsite\.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.mywebsite\.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)/?$ /dir/index.php?sd=%1&pg=$1&mypg=$2 [NC,L]



I need now to redirect any domain name on the alias created.
For sure, I have tested it and 've done the CNAME and I am actually redirected on www. mywebsite.com and not on (%1).mywebsite.com

To be clear, I need (as example) http://www.mydomain.com works as the subdomain created on rules above.
So,

www. mywebsite.com?sd=hello&pg=$1&mypg=$2 works as hello.mywebsite.com and it's fine and I need to redirect any CNAME and also make it work as http://www.mydomain.com.

www. mydomain.com = hello.mywebsite.com = www. mywebsite.com?sd=hello

Both rules (CNAME and Subdomains) has to work together.

Hope you can help.

Cheers,

Yull

[HeliconAndrew]

Hello,

My questions would be: how would www.website.com know which SD parameter value to use?

Regards
Andrew

[yull27 Profile]

Throught the alias SD.mywebsite.com -> www.mywebsite.com/index.php?sd=%1

and this rule already works. I am interested in creating a CNAME with a new domain name redirected on my SD.mywebsite.com.

Actually, when I set the CNAME www.mydomain.com on SD.mywebsite.com, I am redirected on www.mywebsite.com.

Any thought?

Cheers,

Yull

[HeliconAndrew]

it'd confusing...

are you asking for the rule that would redirect from http://www.mywebsite.com to sd.mywebsite.com if the original request came from http://www.mydomain.com?

Regards
Andrew

[yull27 Profile]

Hi Andrew,

Sorry to be confused. I am gonna to try to be christal clear.

I have one website http://www.mywebsite.com which offers some website space and subdomains web addresses.

My actual rules work fines. They are creating subdomains like sub.mywebsite.com or mysub.mywebsite.com traducing the alias as the "?sd=%1" parameter.
Now, I just need to be able to use any other domain names that I can redirect on any subdomains.

For example, on client could purchase one domain name and would like to use it instead of its subdomain for web promotion needs... So he would use its own domain name (e.g. www.mydomain.com) and this should work in addition to the subdomain created. To run some test, I already did one CNAME on my DNS server redirecting http://www.mydomain.com on sub.mywebsite.com.

The problem is I am redirected on http://www.mywebsite.com and not on the subdomain sub.mywebsite.com because I guess the htaccess is not matching.

I hope I am understandable.

Thanks to help.

Cheers,

Yull

[HeliconAndrew]

Hello,

Thanks. Now it is clear.

option #1: You create a rule I suggested before

rule that would redirect from http://www.mywebsite.com to sd.mywebsite.com if the original request came from http://www.mydomain.com?

Option #2: You don't play with CNAME, you create a separate website in IIS for this domain name. Don't create any content, but create a simple rule that redirects from www.mydomain.com to subdomain.mywebsite.com

Regards
Andrew

[yull27 Profile]

Hi Andrew,

I have to choose the option #1 because clients will have to do it by themself.

Do you have any example of rule allowing with transparency (meaning it keeps in the browser the "www.mydomain.com") and use as well the webpages for web promotion.

I am really an ass to write some rules. Can you help?

Cheers,

Yull

[HeliconAndrew]

Hello,

Try to use:

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*mydomain\.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} ^www\.mywebsite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://sd.mywebsite.com/$1 [NC,R=301,L]

Regards
Andrew

[yull27 Profile]

Hi Andrew,

I tryed to make it work, but it doesn't. How do i have to insert it and run with my previous code:

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*mydomain.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} ^www.mywebsite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://sd.mywebsite.com/$1 [NC,R=301,L]


with

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mywebsite.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+).mywebsite.com
RewriteRule ^$ /dir/index.php?sd=%1 [NC]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mywebsite\.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.mywebsite\.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/?$ /dir/index.php?sd=%1&pg=$1 [NC,L]


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mywebsite\.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.mywebsite\.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)/?$ /dir/index.php?sd=%1&pg=$1&mypg=$2 [NC,L]



[HeliconAndrew]

It doesn't really matter in your case. They shouldn't interfere.
Try to get the rewrite.log to see how the request is being processed. Logging issues are described in FAQ - http://www.helicontech.com/forum/10648-FAQ.html


Regards
Andrew

[yull27 Profile]

Hi Andrew,

It doesn't work. Find below the full log file including both code running (one trying to access http://www.mydomain.com and another working on sd.mywebsite.com)

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 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (1) Htaccess process request C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3\httpd.conf
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (1) Htaccess process request d:\web_server\mywebsite.com\www\.htaccess
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (3) applying pattern '^(.*)' to uri ''
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (4) RewriteCond: input='sd.mywebsite.com' pattern='^mywebsite.com$' => not-matched
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (3) applying pattern '^$' to uri ''
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (4) RewriteCond: input='sd.mywebsite.com' pattern='^www.mywebsite.com' => matched
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (4) RewriteCond: input='sd.mywebsite.com' pattern='^([^.]+).mywebsite.com' => matched
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (1) Rewrite URL to >> /dev/index.asp?sd=sd
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (2) rewrite '' -> '/dev/index.asp?sd=sd'
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (3) applying pattern '^([^/.]+)/?$' to uri 'dev/index.asp'
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (3) applying pattern '^([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)/?$' to uri 'dev/index.asp'
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (3) applying pattern 'we/(.*)/' to uri 'dev/index.asp'
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (3) applying pattern 'ws/config/' to uri 'dev/index.asp'
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (3) applying pattern 'xdoc/(.*)_(.*)_(.*)_(.*)/' to uri 'dev/index.asp?sd=sd'
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (3) applying pattern 'xidv/(.*)_(.*)_(.*)_(.*)/' to uri 'dev/index.asp?sd=sd'
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (3) applying pattern 'pg/(.*)_(.*)_(.*)_(.*).asp' to uri 'dev/index.asp?sd=sd'
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (3) applying pattern 'ds/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/' to uri 'dev/index.asp'
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (3) applying pattern 'xpg/(.*)_(.*)_(.*)/' to uri 'dev/index.asp?sd=sd'
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (3) applying pattern '^[^?/]*REF/(\d+)' to uri 'dev/index.asp'
 [sd.mywebsite.com/sid#64][rid#22759760/initial] (3) applying pattern '.?' to uri 'dev/index.asp'




  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (1) Htaccess process request C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3\httpd.conf
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (1) Htaccess process request d:\web_server\mywebsite.com\www\.htaccess
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (3) applying pattern '^(.*)' to uri ''
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (4) RewriteCond: input='www.mydomain.com' pattern='^mywebsite.com$' => not-matched
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (3) applying pattern '^$' to uri ''
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (4) RewriteCond: input='www.mydomain.com' pattern='^www.mywebsite.com' => matched
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (4) RewriteCond: input='www.mydomain.com' pattern='^([^.]+).mywebsite.com' => not-matched
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (3) applying pattern '^([^/.]+)/?$' to uri ''
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (3) applying pattern '^([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)/?$' to uri ''
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (3) applying pattern 'we/(.*)/' to uri ''
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (3) applying pattern 'ws/config/' to uri ''
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (3) applying pattern 'xdoc/(.*)_(.*)_(.*)_(.*)/' to uri ''
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (3) applying pattern 'xidv/(.*)_(.*)_(.*)_(.*)/' to uri ''
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (3) applying pattern 'pg/(.*)_(.*)_(.*)_(.*).asp' to uri ''
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (3) applying pattern 'ds/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/' to uri ''
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (3) applying pattern 'xpg/(.*)_(.*)_(.*)/' to uri ''
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (3) applying pattern '^[^?/]*REF/(\d+)' to uri ''
  [www.mydomain.com/sid#64][rid#42918768/initial] (3) applying pattern '.?' to uri ''




Thanks to help.

Cheers,

Yull

[HeliconAndrew]

I edited the logs for easier redaing. It doesn't look like any of these requests will ever match our rule. None of them was requesting correct domain.

In the first case

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(4) RewriteCond: input='sd.mywebsite.com' pattern='^mywebsite.com$' => not-matched

In the second case:

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(4) RewriteCond: input='www.mydomain.com' pattern='^mywebsite.com$' => not-matched

Regards
Andrew

[yull27 Profile]

meaning? any solution?

[HeliconAndrew]

Meaning:

a) you didn't capture the right requests.
b) you didn't edit the rules to match the live site

Regards
Andrew

[yull27 Profile]

Hi Andrew, I think I get what you want.
Can you please delete my logs and rules after reading. I don't want my web addresses are on Internet. Thanks in advance.

Find below :

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   (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /
   (1) Htaccess process request C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3\httpd.conf
   (1) Htaccess process request d:\web_serveur\something.net\www\.htaccess
   (3) applying pattern '^(.*)' to uri ''
   (4) RewriteCond: input='myevent.domain.com' pattern='^something.net$' => not-matched
   (3) applying pattern '(.*)' to uri ''
   (4) RewriteCond: input='' pattern='^.*domain.com.*$' => not-matched
   (3) applying pattern '^$' to uri ''
   (4) RewriteCond: input='myevent.domain.com' pattern='^www.something.net' => matched
   (4) RewriteCond: input='myevent.domain.com' pattern='^([^.]+).something.net' => not-matched
   (3) applying pattern '^([^/.]+)/?$' to uri ''
   (3) applying pattern '^([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)/?$' to uri ''
   (3) applying pattern 'we/(.*)/' to uri ''
   (3) applying pattern 'ws/config/' to uri ''
   (3) applying pattern 'xdoc/(.*)_(.*)_(.*)_(.*)/' to uri ''
   (3) applying pattern 'xidv/(.*)_(.*)_(.*)_(.*)/' to uri ''
   (3) applying pattern 'creation_site_internet.asp' to uri ''
   (3) applying pattern 'pg/(.*)_(.*)_(.*)_(.*).asp' to uri ''
   (3) applying pattern 'ds/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/' to uri ''
   (3) applying pattern 'xpg/(.*)_(.*)_(.*)/' to uri ''
   (3) applying pattern '^[^?/]*references_web(\d+)\.asp' to uri ''
   (3) applying pattern '^[^?/]*REF/(\d+)' to uri ''
   (3) applying pattern '.?' to uri ''



and original rules :

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*domain.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} ^www.something.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://myevent.something.net/$1 [NC,R=301,L]



RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.something.net
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+).something.net
RewriteRule ^$ /dev/index.asp?sd=%1 [NC]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.something\.net
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.something\.net
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/?$ /dev/index.asp?sd=%1&pg=$1 [NC,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.something\.net
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.something\.net
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)/?$ /dev/index.asp?sd=%1&pg=$1&mypg=$2 [NC,L]



What could be really great is people, after redirecting their CNAME on their subdomain.web-events.net, are redirected with only one rule for every case. (don't know if this is possible... if not, i will have to edit each rule for each domain name redirected as a CNAME on the sub domain.)

Hope this will help you to find what's wrong.

Thanks again.

[HeliconAndrew]

See, here's the key phrase

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(4) RewriteCond: input='' pattern='^.*domain.com.*$' => not-matched

The referer is simply empty. Don't know why. It's just empty.
There's a way to debug and see all the details of a request. IT's a tool developed by Microsoft called Fiddler. You can see if there's something with the request or not

Regards
Andrew

[yull27 Profile]

I have checked fiddler and it doesn't seem to work on asp 3.0 (only .net).
I found something in the code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} ^www.something.net$ [NC]

is the HTTP:Host is normal? Usually it's written HTTP_HOST

Could it be this error that generates the lost of data input?

[HeliconAndrew]

This variable has several ways to put and should work for both cases. But you can check, but I wouldn't consider this to be a problem.

Please, clarify

I have checked fiddler and it doesn't seem to work on asp 3.0 (only .net).

[yull27 Profile]

Hi Andrew,

I try to use the fiddler, but no success.
However, I did many tests and found one problem in the second row linked to the first one in the code above:

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*mydomain\.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.something\.net [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://myevent.something.net/$1 [NC,R=301,L]


So I found a way and it matchs when I use:

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*mydomain\.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://myevent.something.net/$1 [NC,R=301,L]


or

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*mydomain\.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://myevent.something.net/$1 [NC,R=301,L]


The second rule is much better coz it works for all urls to translate instead of the home page in http_referer case.

The prob is it doesn't keep my original address in the browser and run the website from myevent.something.net instead of www.mydomain.com .
I really want to stay on

Hope this helps.

(PS : can you also replace abc-idea.com by domain.com in the previous posts including this row)

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Yull

[HeliconAndrew]

If you don't want domain name to change, it's called proxying. All you need to do is replace [NC,R=301,L] with [NC,P,L].


Regards
Andrew