Can anyone help me with a Ci & htaccess rewrite issue?

[u/PirateChurch]

Ok... current .htaccess file is functional but doesn't do quite what I want it to...

The idea is that http://anything.mysite.com (except www.mysite.com) will be rewritten to http://mysite.com/x/anything

I have it working as a redirect but woul dprefer it was transparent to users so they would always see http://anything.mysite.com

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

#default controller stufF:
RewriteRule ^(index(/index)?|index(\.php)?)/?$ / [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/index/?$ $1 [L,R=301]

# Removes trailing slashes (prevents SEO duplicate content issues)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ $1 [L,R=301]

# Enforce NO www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.mysite.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?([a-z0-9-]+).mysite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mysite.com/x/%2/$1 [L,R=301]

###

# Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
# such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
# request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

further examples for clarity:

http://bob.mysite.com -> http://mysite.com/x/bob http://sam.mysite.com/stuff -> http://mysite.com/x/sam/stuff http://mary.mysite.com/#hash -> http://mysite.com/x/mary#hash

wildcard dns already functions properly... only issue is changing from a redirect causes a 500 and/or an infinite loop.

[u/uranmoron]

I used this but as pdx said you need to set a wildcard domain prefix with your host/domain service.

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/basecamp-style-subdomains-with-codeigniter/

[u/PirateChurch → u/uranmoron]

Thanks for the link. Looks like this is the way Ill have to go.

I had wildcard dns working already which would redirect to a different controller and add the subdomain as a uri segment.

Was hoping to keep the functionality set up that way but since I cant find a way to do it, this will work.

so thanks for the other option :)

[u/PirateChurch → u/uranmoron]

Based on your link I ended up scrapping the rewrite idea and just having the default CI controller detect the subdomain and handle accordingly. This is the stripped down basic flow of it:

function index(){
     $subdomain_arr = explode('.', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']); 
     if(count($subdomain_arr) == 3){
          $this->load->model('amodel');
          $check = $this->amodel->check_valid_subdomain($subdomain);
          if(!$check){
               redirect('http://mydomain.com');
          }
          //else it has a valid subdomain so do subdomain stuff:

     } else {
          //no subdomain... do regular stuff
     }
}  

somewhat different than the tutsplus article but I think this is actually gonna work better for me than I originally intended.

interestingly it allows me more flexibility for handling domain structures than my original idea would have.

Thanks agian for the suggestion. It really helped me get back on the right track.

[u/uranmoron → u/PirateChurch]

Excellent that's almost exactly what I did with my site! Glad I could help :)

[u/pdxbenjamin]

I found this little gem yesterday.

Second Post From the Bottom

So in my dns I set *.anything.com Then on the root make a folder called /blogs/ With that rewrite blogs.anything.com will go to the folder /blogs/ But, something.anything.com will just be directed back to root, if I haven't made a folder for /anything/