I recently had the need to move a WordPress Website from a subfolder on Godaddy hosting to a subdomain on Hostgator hosting. I used Backupbuddy to move the Site but the Site wasn’t displaying correctly i.e. it looked like the style.css files wasn’t being read.
I installed the Search and Replace Plugin to change any remaining subfolder URLs to the Subdomain URL i.e. changed http://example.com/subfolder to http://subdomain.example.com but still the stylesheet wasn’t being read. Fortunately I found the answer on Shi Chuan’s Blog.
Here then is the htaccess needed to redirect (and rewrite) a subfolder to a subdomain (just replace the words example, subfolder and subdomain where appropriate):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com$1 [L,R=301]
RedirectMatch 301 ^/subfolder/(.*)$ http://subdomain.example.com/$1This htaccess isn’t limited to use in WordPress alone and should work for Joomla, Drupal or any Website hosted on Apache HTTP Server.
chirro says
September 3, 2013 at 5:05 pmHi, the name of my subfolder and subdomain is not the same, the redirect will lead me an empty subdomain page. Ex. I want http://www.mysite.com/community to become http://www.forums.dipolog.com. How can I achieve that when i go to http://www.forums.dipolog.com it will show all the contents inside the /community wihtou renaming the /community folder?
Gerhard says
September 4, 2013 at 2:07 amHello and thank you for this piece of code.
I had a problem though, with redirection from yourdomain.com to http://www.yourdomain.com
When I entered yourdomain.com/subfolder, I got redirected to yourdomain.comsubfolder.
After adding in a slash at line 4 after example.com, It worked for me. The whole thing then lookes like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RedirectMatch 301 ^/subfolder/(.*)$ http://subdomain.example.com/$1
Cheers
Neeraj Rathod says
October 8, 2015 at 11:32 pmGerhard,
can you please code this for any subfolder to wildcard(any) subdomain.
CinemaFunk says
July 12, 2014 at 2:38 amThis was very helpful. I was able to quickly rewrite a subdomain to a domain.
Teuku Ridho says
September 13, 2015 at 9:56 pmThank you, it works!
Andrew Lopez says
February 27, 2016 at 6:37 amI have a website gb.idsrealestate.com that is not displaying the CSS. The website is a sub domain website with a subfolder (wp). I am trying to display the website properly.
I tried using the code provided but am not sure how to properly implement.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RedirectMatch 301 ^/subfolder/(.*)$ http://subdomain.example.com/$1
Site: gb.idsrealestate.com
Sub Folder: /wp/ –> all WordPress files location
Preston says
September 19, 2016 at 3:41 amDoesn’t work for me at all.
It changed domain.com/sub –> sub.domain.com
BUT the directory that seems to appear is the root directory. So I’ve remapped the subdomain to the root… which is pointless.