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Pointing a subdomain to a subfolder using .htaccess

My web host automatically redirects all requests to * .mydomain.com to the top level domain mydomain.com.

I wanted to map any subdomain to a specific folder in my top level domain. that is, sub.example.com should be mapped to example.com/someFolder ( no change in the address bar).

After digging around the net, I came up with the following:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?[^.]+\.example\.com.*$
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/myfolder/$1 [L]

This seems to work well, except for one problem: when I go to the URL sub.example.com, the URL in the address bar changes to example.com/myfolder. But, when I do something like sub.example.com/login it correctly matches "example.com/sub/login" without changing the address bar. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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only a small change is required:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?[^.]+\.example\.com.*$
RewriteRule (.*) myfolder/$1 [L]


removed http: // in a rule that tells Apache to send a Redirect header instead of properly rewriting on the server side.

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