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Answered Setup a Subdomain on Evolution

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    @curmudgeon61 Reply #1, 14 years, 9 months ago
    I have a legacy Evo site that is several years old and has 500+ resouces. For the first time I need to setup a part of the site on a subdomain. I want to use the existing installation. I can find lots of info about using contexts to do this for Revolution. But I cannot find anything for Evo.

    Can someone point me to a good post/article on the best way to do this for Evolution?

    Thanks!

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      CharlesMx Reply #2, 14 years, 9 months ago
      Well, what is the purpose of the sub-domain over using the folder architecture? What's your expected or desired management of content of the primary domain vs. the sub-domain?

      In the past I've done this using rewrite rules to point the sub-domain to corresponding (same) aliased folder structure in Evo.
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        @curmudgeon61 Reply #3, 14 years, 9 months ago
        Hi CharlesMx.

        Their SEO folks want a subdomain instead of a folder for a new section of the site.

        Yes, if I can use .htaccess to rewrite the subdomain to a folder I'm golden. However, I'm pretty bad at regex. An example of what worked for you would be awesome.

        Thanks.
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          CharlesMx Reply #4, 14 years, 9 months ago
          This rule should match the sub-domain to the first level folder and also append the rest of the original URL after giving a complete URL.

          If the user puts:
          http://members.your-domain.com/list.html
          would rewrite to:
          http://your-domain.com/members/list.html

          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ([^.]+)\.your-domain.com(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule %1%2
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