htaccess with wildcard SSL

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Question By Ericko Machet
We have a Wildcard SSL Certificate that is supposed to work on any subdomain of a given domain.

So in this server we have this file structure:

/home/DOMAIN/public_html/subdomainx
/home/DOMAIN/public_html/subdomainy
etc...

Now, the Certificate is installed, but when you visit any subdomain over https (example: hxxps://subdomainx.domain.com ) it points to

/home/DOMAIN/public_html/index.php

We need that when you visit a subdomain via https
hxxps://subdomainx.domain.com

That it points to the the same directory that it's http equivalent: /home/DOMAIN/public_html/subdomainx

Our provider tells us that this is not possible, that the current behaviour is correct, and that we should do some htaccess to achieve this.

I've tried a few things, incluiding this solution, that seems to be what I need

But can't get it to work.

Any tips? Thanks.

Answered By Jon Lin

You don't want the [R] flag in your rewrite rule, or the hostname in the target. You want to rewrite the URI so that a "subdomainx" is prepended to it. Something along the lines of:


RewriteEngine On

# We don't want the main domain or www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^((?!www).*)\.domain.com$ [NC]

# Make sure that if we rewrite, the destination actually exists (to prevent loops and properly return 404's)
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%1%{REQUEST_URI} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%1%{REQUEST_URI} -d

# rewrite
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /%1/$1 [L]

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