By huayen on

Hello,

I am using web hosting service of hostmonster.com to run a drupal site. The hosting service requires all web files reside within \public_html.

I used a primary domain to sign in the hosting service, which by default points to the root folder \public_html.

I can add other domain to the hosting and point it to a sub-folder \public_html\####

I am using my primary domain to run a Drupal site, so all drupal files, including .htaccess, reside in \public_html. Now the problem is the .htaccess prevent from visiting any sub-folder \public_html\####, so my additionally added domains are all blocked.

My question is: how to modify the default drupal .htaccess such that only drupal files are blocked from direct visit, and all subfolders of other domains are not blocked.

Note:
(1) My hosting service does not allow the primary domain to point to a subfolder within \public_html.
(2) I know I can create a subfolder for it and use redirect with .htaccess. However, the problem is URLs of all links on the site contain the sub-folder name, which s not what I need. SO, I have to put my primary domain drupal files in root folder \public_html

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huayen commented

The hostmonster.com knowledgebase provide following tips:

.htaccess - How to make a subfolder the main folder for your main domain

Problem
The main domain on the hosting account uses the public_html folder for all of its Web site files. Any addon domains use subfolders inside the public_html folder. In order to also set up your main domain to use a subfolder on your hosting account you will need to set up a redirect in the .htaccess file in the public_html folder so that the server knows that any request for your main domain will be redirected to a subfolder on public_html.

Visitors to your Web site will not be able to tell that your main domain is using a subfolder, they will still see the Web site address as http://www.yourdomain.com/page.html

Solution

# Hostmonster.com
# .htaccess main domain to subfolder redirect
# Copy and paste the following code into the .htaccess file
# in the public_html folder of your hosting account
# make the changes to the file according to the instructions.


# Do not change this line.

RewriteEngine on


# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?yourmaindomain.com$


# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subfolder/

# Don't change this line.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain.

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subfolder/$1

# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain again.
# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain
# followed by / then the main file for your site, index.php, index.html, etc.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?yourmaindomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ subfolder/index.php [L]

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This redirect does work, but all links in Drupal site still contains the sub-folder name. Also, the created URL_alias has to contain the subfolder name.

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huayen commented

Solved by modifying $base_directory in setting.php

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nevmoor commented

Could you be more specific about HOW you did the mod to $base_directory??
I would like to redirect to a subdomain which contains a redesign of my site.