First post here, so hoping someone can help - I have searched the forum, but can't find anything that has really pointed me in the right direction.
Basically, I have a script with a database that is getting too large now, so I need new signups to be using a new version of my site/database with the old one still running for people currently using it. You can see from below it is a forum hosting site. I can't afford another server right now, so I need to use a subdomain on the same server for the new database until I can move it (the subdomain) onto a server of its own...
Now, I am using Plesk, and have configured a subdomain, s1.mydomain.com within which I have placed all the code for the "new" part of the site to run from.
The problem I am having is that I can't get the mod rewrite to work properly and show the new stuff when it is accessed, I keep getting redirected to the base domain. The setup of the domains/subdomains in Plesk is as follows :
The path to the main site is
/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/
and the path to the subdomain is :
/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/subdomains/s1/httpdocs/
My current .htaccess file (placed in the root of the main domain) is as follows :
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/images/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/includes/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/language/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cache/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/db/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/docs/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/feedback/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/templates/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/admin/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/banners/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/config/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/admin/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/banners/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/cache/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/config/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/db/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/images/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/images/avatars/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/logos/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/images/smiles/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/includes/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/language/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/templates/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/xs_mod/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/banners/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/avatars/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/logos/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/smiles/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/xs_mod/
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_]*)/(.*) /forums/$2?%{QUERY_STRING}&mforum=$1&subfolder=1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1/ [R=301,L]
ErrorDocument 401 http://www.mydomain.com/401.htm
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.mydomain.com/403.htm
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.mydomain.com/404.htm
Now, I assumed if I just replicated that (and placed in the root of s1.mydomain.com) , but altered for s1.mydomain.com instead of www.mydomain.com, everything would work, but it isn't. I am getting redirected to www.mydomain.com still, and from what I can tell, the .htaccess is the root of the main domain is still dealing with the requests, even for s1.mydomain.com
I hope I've explained this OK, and that someone can help me out? What I basically need is for the site at www.mydomain.com and at s1.mydomain.com to operate completely independently of each other, but in the same way (eg - the .htaccess file rewrites requests for mydomain.com/forums?mforum=testforum to mydomain.com/testforum
I would like s1.mydomain.com/forums/?mforum=testforum to rewrite to s1.mydomain.com/testforum
Any help you could give would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
James