addon domain redirect messed up

[chmod root]

Have a main domain setup on the account. Added an addon domain. Want the MAIN domain to redirect to another link within the same main domain.

http://maindomain.com >> http://maindomain.com/folder/index.php

it works, but it causes the addon domain to redirect to that link also. It should now.

I have tried this:

Redirect permanent /index.html http://www.domain.com/addondomainfolder/index.php

It caused the addon and subdomains to redirect as well. This is not normal, as is cpanel not normal.

Anyone know about this?

 

[chmod root]

addon.com is redirecting to main.domain

I deleted all instances of the addon from /var/cpanel/users, named.conf, httpd.conf, etc. and re-added it fresh. I deleted .htaccess file and redid the MAIN domain redirect via cpanel as

http://main.com to http://main.com/folder/index.php

now the main redirects fine, but addon STILL redircects to main domain???

 

[4u123]

Yep, I think this is normal cpanel behaviour.

If you redirect the primary hosted domain on an account - all the addons also get redirected there.

I guess its just another bug they couldnt be bothered to fix.

 

[IceProducts]

Does anyone know of a manual way to fix this? I have been searching for weeks trying to figure this out and beating my head endlessly against the wall trying to get this to work properly.

Here is my example:

My shopping cart is currently at http://www.mydomain.com/store/

I want it to be accessible when users go to http://www.mydomain.com/

I have setup a permanent (and tried temporary) redirect (using CPanel) and it works fine. However, every other subdomain also gets redirected to http://www.mydomain.com/store/

For example: http://subdomain.mydomain.com should get its data from http://www.mydomain.com/subdomain but instead it gets redirected to http://www.mydomain.com/store/

I am not sure if this is a "Bug" or not but it sure seems like it. It would be nice if it was fixed but in the mean time I really just need to get this working properly and am capable of editing whatever needs to be manually edited if someone could just point me in the right direction.

I appreciate your help in advance,
IceProducts

 

[Stefaans]

Firstly, I feel I should state that the behaviour you are seeing is not a bug. By design, Apache will inherit any settings in .htaccess to sub-directories. Because add-on domains reside in sub-directories of public_html, any redirect settings you make for the account's main domain automatically applies to the add-on domains to.

IMHO, there is a couple of things Cpanel could do differently to make things easier/better:
* Instead of arsing RedirectMatch, use the the mod-rewrite functions instead. With mod_rewrite, one can set rules per domain and thus get the resolution required here. See my example below.
* It would be nice if Cpanel set up add-on domains somewhere in the user's directory outside of the public_html directory, e.g. in public_html_addondomain. That way the main domain and add on domains can be configured independently.

Anyway, back to the problem. IceProducts, the following code in your .htaccess should give the desired result:

RewriteEngine On
rewritecond %{http_host} mydomain\.com$
rewriteRule !store* http://www.mydomain.com/store/ [R=301,L]

The first line enables mod_rewrite (quite obvious). The second line says that the settings that follow only apply to hosts that end with mydomain.com, e.g. mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com, and hence excludes your add-on domains. The third line checks if the URL includes the word "store", and if it does not, redirects to www.mydomain.com/store. It also sends a 301 response, meaning the document has moved permanently.

I hope this helps