I am trying to access my silverstripe installation using a subdomain and I'm not having much luck. I know it's an issue with .htaccess but I've been looking at the documentation on the apache site and it's just not clicking.

Here's my setup -
Host: godaddy.com
Main site: http://www.unclebubby.com
Silverstripe install: http://www.unclebubby.com/wavs2 (wavs2 is the subdir where SS is installed)
Desired access: http://wavs.unclebubby.com or http://wav.unclebubby.com

wavs.unclebubby.com currently points to a bunch of redirect pages under a subdir named /wavs. wav.unclebubby.com currently points to the SS install under the /wavs2 subdir.

Current .htaccess file (default):

### SILVERSTRIPE START ###
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wavs2

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(^/wavs2$)|(\.gif)|(\.jpg)|(\.png)|(\.css)|(\.js)|(\.php)$ 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* sapphire/main.php?url=%1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
### SILVERSTRIPE END ###

As it is, if I access it directly (www.unclebubby.com/wavs2) it works fine. If I try to access via subdomain (wav.unclebubby.com/wavs2) I get a 404 error which states "The requested URL /wavs2/sapphire/main.php was not found on this server." I worked with someone for a little bit in the chat room last night. They suggested changing the RewriteBase from /wavs2 to mydomain.com/wavs2. I tried several iterations including unclebubby.com/wavs2, www.unclebubby.com/wavs2, /unclebubby.com/wavs2, etc. I didn't try the subdomain with any of those changes because each one I tried broke direct access (www.unclebubby.com/wavs2) with a 500 internal server error.

I've looked at the execution pipeline document (http://doc.silverstripe.org/doku.php?id=execution-pipeline&s=htaccess), which led me to the mod_rewrite documentation (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html), which led me to the URL rewriting guide (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/rewrite/rewrite_guide.html). I think I have an elementary grasp of what the .htaccess file is doing but I can't figure out how to get it to do what I -want- it to do, which is allow me to access the site directly or via either subdomain.

I know I'm not the only one who has experienced this but the answers I've found/been given so far have been vague or have not produced the desired results. ANY help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Joe

easy easy brother ;)

--> wav.unclebubby.com/wavs2
this is, where your subdomain should go to?

then "wavs2" folder is the root of your subdomain.
you have to change this line in your .htaccess

RewriteBase /wavs2
TO
RewriteBase /

and it should work!

##################
with default .htacess, silverstripe will go to
"wav.unclebubby.com/wavs2/wavs2"
=
"root/wavs2"

Thank you for your reply. That change did get the subdomain working. Unfortunately, it broke direct access. Isn't there a way to look at what URL the person is using and set the baseurl based on that? Like I said, I looked at the documentation but I'm having trouble grasping the specifics of how it works (although I do understand why/how the change you suggested works).

Thanks,
Joe

hey, now i tested your subdomain again and i see you got it :D
there is no redirection site anymore. and the URL http://wavs.unclebubby.com/ still keeps in adress line while surfing your website!

(i just knew that problem, because i had the same prob just one day before :D)

Just so if anyone else looks at this later, this is what I ended up with for my .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

# Change any direct URLs (www.unclebubby.com...) to the subdomain (wavs.unclebubby.com)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?unclebubby\.com$ [NC] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/wavs2/(.*)$ [NC] 
RewriteRule .* http://wavs.unclebubby.com/%1 [R=301,L]

# If there is a .htm at the end of the URL, get rid of it (due to migration of site from FrontPage)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(.+)\.htm$ [NC] 
RewriteRule ^.+\.htm$ /%1 [R=301,L]

### SILVERSTRIPE START ###

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wavs2$
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule !^.+\.(gif|jpg|png|css|js|php)$ ./sapphire/main.php?url=%{REQUEST_URI} [QSA,L]
### SILVERSTRIPE END ###

Everything works beautifully now. Many many thanks to the people over at mod_rewrite forums (http://forum.modrewrite.com) for setting that up for me. They even cleaned up the original code.