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Anthony Hiscox
Asked: 2011-01-30 13:55:25 +0800 CST

mod_rewrite rules to run fcgi for different subdomains

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On my shared hosting server (Hostmonster) I have django (actually pinax) setup so that a .htaccess mod_rewrite rule rewrites the request to a pinax.fcgi file:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ pinax.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L]

What I would like to do is have a different pinax.fcgi file get called depending on the domain used (or subdomain), something like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ pinax2.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L]


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ pinax.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L]

This is stored in a .htaccess file in my ROOT public_html folder (not in the public_html/subdomain/ folder), but unfortunately just results in internal redirect errors. How can I write these rules so that they use a different fcgi file for different domains?

apache-2.2 django .htaccess mod-rewrite shared-hosting

1 Answers

  1. I figured it out.

    In the root .htaccess (in public_html) put:

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^subdomain\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ pinax.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L]

    In your subdomain .htaccess (in public_html/subdomain) put:

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ pinax2.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L]

    pinax2.fcgi needs to be in the public_html/subdomain/ directory, and pinax.fcgi should be in public_html/

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