Topic awaiting preservation: Forking synonym domains with .htaccess

'lo.

I just got myself a new domain name, www.mauro-colella.com (it may take up to 24 hours to be available to everybody).
Synonym to www.beyondwonderland.com.

I don't want both sites to display the same thing, but I want them to be under the same web root.

So, I whacked that with .htaccess (try to spot a potential bug) :

Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes 
RewriteEngine On
# Rewrite rule for mauro-colella.com 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mauro-colella\.com 
RewriteRule $(.*)^ http://www.mauro-colella.com/gateway/$1 [L]

Basically, depending on which domain name you use to access the very same site, you will be redirected to "gateway",
where the professional side of my activities will reside.

You've created an infinite loop in your rewrite rule. I think what you should do is

Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes 
RewriteEngine On
# Rewrite rule for mauro-colella.com 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?mauro-colella\.com 
RewriteRule (www.)?mauro-colella.com/(.*) http://www.beyondwonderland.com/gateway/$2 [L]

Off the top of my head, so this may be wrong.

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-- not necessarily stoned... just beautiful.

You can use something like this, too, AFAIK:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !gateway

hypabole, chill There's no infinite loop there : it works - http://www.mauro-colella.com
does NOT display the White Rabbit, it displays the correct target folder.

It would be infinite if it was:

quote:

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RewriteRule (.*) /gateway/$1 [L]

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Off the reality of my web server Thank you for the input though, I was merely sharing - there is one possible improvement, though : sub domains (eg. no www, * instead).