.htaccess subdomain redirect to one specific folder - CakePHP App

Question

I'm trying to set up a subdomain for my application because I don't want admin code to be mixed into the same folders as regular user code. I'm using CakePHP on a PHPfog server, so I can only use .htaccess to create the subdomain. I have enabled wildcard subdomain support.

Here is my folder structure:

app  
app-admin  
cake  
plugins  
vendors  
index.php  
.htaccess

The 'app' folder is where the "normal user" site code is located. The "app-admin" folder will be for admins, of course.

I'm trying to get a specific rewrite rule that will redirect anything going to the admin.mydomain.com, to the "app-admin" folder. All other subdomains should be ignored (sent to the 'app' folder).

The stock .htaccess file in a CakePHP app looks like this:

RewriteEngine on  
RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]  
RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]

Right now I'm trying this with no luck:

RewriteEngine on  
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^admin[NC]  
RewriteRule    ^$ app-admin/webroot/    [L]  
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^admin[NC]  
RewriteRule    (.*) app-admin/webroot/$1 [L] 

RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]  
RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]

Any help to get this functioning would be greatly appreciated.

anubhava anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-27T18:42:53

Can you put this code in your .htaccess and try again:

Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on  

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^admin\. [NC]  
RewriteRule ^(?!app-admin/) app-admin/webroot%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NC]

RewriteRule ^(?!app/) app/webroot%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NC]

Also please report some more details like what URLs are not working. Good place to look at would be apache error.log and access log.

.htaccess subdomain redirect to one specific folder - CakePHP App

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