.htaccess file - what do I put in it?

[Mr. Deleted]

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.deleted.com
AuthUserFile /home/deleted/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/deleted/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

I just set up wild card dns on deleted.com and am wondering what to put into htaccess to make anything.deleted.com forword to deleted.com, or whereever I want it?

 

[Beachie]

anything.deleted.com should automatically forward to the root of www.deleted.com if you add the following to your apache httpd.conf (assuming you're using apache..). Under the <VirtualHost> tag for deleted.com, set your ServerAlias like this:

ServerAlias *.deleted.com deleted.com

You can do fancy .htaccess forwarding something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*/somefolderthatalreadyexists/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*/anotherfolderthatalreadyexists/
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)?/?([^/\.]+)?/?([^/\.]+)?/?([^/\.]+)?/?$ index.php?P=$1&link1=$2&link2=$3&link3=$4 [L]

That should forward http://pants.deleted.com to http://www.deleted.com/pants
Depending on your site, you'll need to mess around a bit with that...

The RewriteCond lines should contain any existing folders that you don't want forwarding to work for. For example, you don't want http://cgi-bin.deleted.com to forward to http://www.deleted.com/cgi-bin

Also, just for fun, did you know that you can use underscores in third-level domains? So http://no_pants.deleted.com will work..

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.deleted.com
AuthUserFile /home/deleted/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/deleted/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

I just set up wild card dns on deleted.com and am wondering what to put into htaccess to make anything.deleted.com forword to deleted.com, or whereever I want it?

 

[MrDude]

the following

# -FrontPage- 

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti* 

<Limit GET POST> 
order deny,allow 
deny from all 
allow from all 
</Limit> 
<Limit PUT DELETE> 
order deny,allow 
deny from all 
</Limit> 
AuthName www.deleted.com 
AuthUserFile /home/deleted/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd 
AuthGroupFile /home/deleted/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

Is not needed in htaccess if you delete the frontpage folders vti_ and _private which is just crap generated by cPanel.

 

[Mr. Deleted]

well now, deleted.com is not coming up, it is all messed up since I messed with the .htaccess file

 

[Blarian]

well now, deleted.com is not coming up, it is all messed up since I messed with the .htaccess file

Ive had that happen before too, just delete everything in the file until you can be certain that nothing is wrong with your coding.

 

[JEsports]

...

 

[Mr. Deleted]

can anyone help me figer it all out? I have WHM, and my host set the wild card up, they are really nice about stuff like that...

 

[cyphix]

If you want to forward wildcard subdomains then I believe your host has to do something with the MX Records like setup a C NAME or something.....

 

[Mr. Deleted]

mx is a mail record, c name is different then mx. I just never did this before, and don't want to mess it all up...

 

[TogZip]

try this

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.deleted\.com$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.deleted\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://deleted.com/%1$1 [P]

%1 is the directory and $1 are the requested files.

so anything.deleted.com/index.html will show deleted.com/anything/index.html

if all subs should go to one directory change RewriteRule to

RewriteRule (.*) http://deleted.com/fixeddirectory/$1 [P]

hope it will help, if not read here http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/138.htm

regards Tog

 

[Beachie]

mx is a mail record, c name is different then mx. I just never did this before, and don't want to mess it all up...

Send me an email at [email protected] with exactly what you want, and how you want it forwarding, and I'll do it for you.

Cheers,
Chris.

 

[Mr. Deleted]

Send me an email at [email protected] with exactly what you want, and how you want it forwarding, and I'll do it for you.

Cheers,
Chris.

I sent you an email. Thanks.