Subdomain to subfolder redirect

Hi @jen22

Is there a specific reason why you need the two to be separate accounts? I ask this only because it may be easier to achieve what you're looking to do if you created example.com -> then within the cPanel interface create the subdomain jen.example.com.

Once that's done your folders would be created under the /home directory for the example user automatically.

To set up jen.example.com to redirect to example.com/jen you should be able to go to cPanel>>Domains>>Redirects and set up the redirect from the UI

Thank you,

 

Hi @jen22

I understand, what you're describing should work though.

The steps to do this would be similar to what you listed:

1. Create example.com account (pending it didn't already exist)

2. Create a folder in example.com's public_html called jen

3. Create the account jen.example.com

4. Go to cPanel>>Domains>>Redirects and add a redirect for jen.example.com -> http://example.com/jen or https://example.com/jen depending on which you'd rather use

5. Select redirect with or without WWW if you want both to redirect

6. Select Add

Once this is complete the redirection should look like this in the .htaccess file for jen.example.com:

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^jen\.example\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.jen\.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "https\:\/\/example\.com\/jen" [R=301,L]

in this example the domain jen.example.com or www.jen.example.com redirects to https://example.com/jen which would hold all the data for the domain.

Thank you,