Subdomain And Awstats

[owatagal]

I moved my forum to a subdomain because I want to track the stats separately from the rest of the site. The move went fine -- ht*p://forum/mysite.dom/ appears to be working correctly.

 

Unfortunately, so is ht*p://mysite.dom/forum -- I understand how subdomains work and that this is the actual folder and all that, but is there a way to redirect any traffic that happens to go here to the subdomain address (ht*p://forum.mysite.dom)? I want to make sure the traffic is counted in the subdomain's Awstats, not the main site's Awstats. I hope I'm making sense.

 

I'm just afraid trying something like a 301 redirect (ht*p://mysite.dom/forum to ht*p://forum.mysite.dom) will cause an internal server error, blow up the Internet, cause a rift in space/time, etc. (Kidding... but with my site at 400x the normal traffic for this month, I really don't want to cause an internal server error and lose this sudden new audience, even temporarily).

Edited May 19, 2006 by owatagal

[TCH-Bruce]

How about a mod rewrite rule in the .htaccess file?

[TCH-JimE]

TCH bruce is write (sorry very poor pun)

 

>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   ^[www\.]*sub-domain-name.domain-name.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/sub-domain-directory/.*
RewriteRule   ^(.*)  /sub-domain-directory/$1  [L]

 

Put that in your htaccess and that will rewrite your url

 

JimE

[TCH-Bruce]

Thanks Jim, if I was any good at rewrite rules I would have provided it.