.htaccess addon domains

[slapshotw]

It's getting a little hard for me to follow this thread. Have you already tried clearing out your .htaccess, and just setting up redirects in cPanel X3 using the "wildcard" option (which should redirect everything including the slash and anything after it)?

[visitor]

Have you already tried clearing out your .htaccess, and just setting up redirects in cPanel X3 using the "wildcard" option

Your the man !

Yes, I did start from fresh, but not with cPanel X3 !

So, I just deleted .htaccess in the root AND inside that folder, and used cPanel to set up the re-direct

YIPPY !

This is what it made this time;

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^maindomain.co.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.maindomain.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^addondomainfolder/?(.*)$ "http\:\/\/www\.addondomain\.us\/$1" [R=301,L]

Just one problem, while there is a .htaccess file inside the "addondomainfolder" it stops it working. So I started removing things, but it still didnt work until I deleted it.

So have added the "addondomain" hotlink protect code to the main site. But then what about my custom error pages which ones will load?.

Answer = the right ones For some reason I dont need the "ErrorDocument 400 /400.shtml" added to the addondomain for them to work, I guess when there is an error (Page not found), because its inside a folder it loads the right .shtml inside the folder.

So far have tried everything I can think of, and its all redirecting perfect !

Well that is all except "https" for some reason that brings up a hostgator error page. No I havent set up SSL (Shared) so perhaps thats why.

but whos going to type https anyway (Me)

Thank for your help !

[visitor]

Oh well found a slight problem

http://www.addondomain.us/nopage.html

Redirects ok to the error page with the right path.

but

http://addondomain.us/nopage.html

redirects to the right error page, but wrong path

http://www.addondomain.us/addondomainfolder/nopage.html

in the main site .htaccess I had this

rewritecond %{http_host} ^maindomain.co.uk [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.maindomain.co.uk/$1 [r=301,nc]

That still works fine, tried adding the same for the addondomain and the results are on another planet.

At this time, I decided its good enough

Watch this space

[slapshotw]

You're welcome and glad you got it working!