Hello, I've been lurking for a while trying to sort this out, but now I thought I'd ask..

I have a primary domain registered on Lunarpages ( www.lionsbrooke.com )

I also have another domain name I have registered elsewhere, that had been redirecting to my personal webserver that I have moved onto the Lunarpages account as an add-on domain ( www.crcs-reality.com )

All of that is working at this point . . .  However..

The actual lionsbooke.com site is in the "public_html/smf" directory
The actual crcs-reality.com site is in the "public_html/crcs-reality" directory.

I have the add-on domain set up right in cpanel, and both sites resolve and function correctly, but I'd like them to appear as only the domain name in the address bar when navigating the sites.

When navigating lionsbrooke.com, the address bar shows "http://www.lionsbrooke.com/smf" and when navigating crcs-reality.com the adress bar shows "http://www.lionsbrooke.com/crcs-reality"

Now, I know this can be done with a bit of tweaking of my .htaccess files, but I am at a loss on how to make it work. I've been working at it for a couple days and always end up rendering the sites offline until I restore my 'working' .htaccess files (thank god for backups!)..

The .htaccess file located in "public_html" contains:


And the .htaccess file located in "public_html/crcs-reality" contains:



Yes, I realize there is probably stuff in there I don't need......   

Any guidance on how to modify these files to work the way I want?
I'd like all navigation within crcs-reality.com to show "http://www.crcs-reality.com" in the address bar, and all navigation within lionsbrooke.com to show as "http://www.lionsbrooke.com"

Thanks in advance !

Not sure which .htaccess file I was supposed to try that on, so I tried it with both files, and both as an addition as well as replacing the existing file with this code..

No luck.

With this code, my page does not come up at all (internal server error)..

Any other ideas?

Changed my 'public_html/.htaccess" to:


And left the "public_html/crcs-reality/.htaccess" as it was..

No change at all..


should I be changing/removing the file in "public_html/crcs-reality/.htaccess" as well?  I feel like I'm missing something obvious . .

The intent is:

any inquirys to www.lionsbrooke.com should redirect to www.lionsbrooke.com/smf/, but the address bar should just show www.lionsbrooke.com

Any inquirys to www.crcs-reality.com should redirect to www.lionsbrooke.com/crcs-reality/, but the address bar should show www.crcs-reality.com

I have removed/renamed 'public_html/crcs-reality/.htaccess" (which now leaves www.crcs-reality.com offline, no response, OK for the moment as this isn't the primary domain and I can play with it a bit).

If I comment out the pair
RewriteCond ...
RewriteRule ...
www.lionsbrooke.com goes offline (or at least reverts to the tmp. index.html page siting in 'public_html"). . . .

I appreciate the help so far . . . .  just wish I could get this sorted out.

OK, with this applied, Lionsbrooke.com works (although navigating the forums still shows "www.lionsbrooke.com/smf/" in the address bar)..

crcs-reality.com comes up as "500 internal server error"

 

The problem here is that www.crcs-reality.com, being an add-on, will show up as www.lionsbrooke.com/crcs-reality/. The code that Troy provided will take any URI not  starting with "smf/" and stick "smf/" in front of it. This will turn a URI of "crcs-reality/" into "smf/crcs-reality/", which is incorrect.

I think you merely need to add a third Rewrite Condition:

RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI}  !crcs-reality/

to keep the add-on from being smf'd. I don't know why you're seeing the "smf" in the URL when it's redirected. Does this happen on the very first entry (http://www.lionsbrooke.com), or just on subsequent pages? If the latter, it may well be that the SMF code is internally providing links with "smf" already in them, in which case I doubt you can do much about it. You might try  adjusting the domain name settings (smf/Settings.php) to be "lionsbrooke.com" instead of "lionsbrooke.com/smf" (if that's what's there now), and let the new redirection take care of the "smf/" part.

At this point, URLs for crcs-reality.com should not have been modified (still lionsbrooke.com/crcs-reality/). Now you can use the code to rewrite this URL to the add-on:

RewriteRule  ^crcs-reality/?(.*)$  http://www.crcs-reality.com/$1  [R=301]

which should show as the add-on in the address bar. Remove any URL rewriting from crcs-reality/.htaccess.

P.S. Don't forget to clear your browser cache after any change to .htaccess.

You are both correct on why www.lionsbrooke.com was adding the /smf at the end . . .   Call it operator error in the configuration   
It's much better now..

However . . . .

My subdomain of www.crcs-reality still refuses to show www.crcs-reality as the address instead of www.lionsbrooke.com/crcs-reality..

Currently, my "public_html/.htaccess" file reads :



Which has it working just fine . . .  No more problems there.

However, for www.crcs-reality.com . .

A blank .htaccess file leaves it offline (500 server error)

So I have reverted it to :

Which puts the site online, but has it back to showing as www.lionsbrooke.com/crcs-reality , which won't work . . . .

I appreciate the help so far folks (truly), any input on how to get this last bit working would be gereat!

Hmm . . .

I already called them . .  and, not to be mean if any of you work there..

I sat on hold for 30 minutes for a guy to come on and say "hmm, let me look at it...  "

As he was saying that, my site went offline

The he said "that's odd, I'm getting an error . .  Can you hold?"

Then he hung up on me and my site was offline (had been up before the call)..

I checked the .htaccess file and saw he had butchered it before he hung up on me..  I restored it from my backup (which brought the site back) and called them again..  Sat on hold for another 30 minutes, and was told "of course your site doesn't work right now, DNS propogation is happening..  Give it 2 or 3 days and call back"

I tried to explain that the site worked, but I needed a little help with the .htaccess file and I was told again to wait 2 or 3 days and call back..

So I posted here for help 

I'm almost afraid to call them again after the last experience . . . . I mean, it works right now, just shows the wrong adress in the address bar . . . .  My last call in to support dropped the site and wasted over an hour of my time with zero results..