Subdomains & Forwarding

Dear HostGator Staff,

I'm seeking an anwer to a problem thats been bothering me for over a week. Here is the situation with an explanation:

A) The Control Panel allows you to create a Subdomain (ex: subdomain1.domain.com) which will firmly point to the /subdomain1 folder.

B) Any link (ex: http://subdomain1.domain.com/abc/link.html) will remain in the URL bar of the browser as the actual link (http://subdomain1.domain.com/abc/link.html)

C) If you create a "redirect" for a subdomain to another folder (ex: /anotherfolder) using the Control Panel, it will NOT keep the subdomain's address in the URL bar, but simply redirect and show the new one.


Simply put, I have a subdomain : "abc.domain.com" and want to point it to "/anewfolder" instead of "/abc" like the system does, AND in addition without it having to redirect to "www.domain.com/anewfolder/file.html" but remain as "abc.domain.com/file.html"

The Control Panel does not allow for me to do it, unless I do it by default to the same folder as the subdomain name (which will not work for me)

I know its possible to mendle with .htaccess file, but I've tried something and it did not work out.

What should I do ?

Thank you for your help.

WW #AJV-57628-701

[dhom]

Any response to this query yet?