Use .htaccess URL rewriting to bind a domain to a subdirectory and create a subsite

Apache hosting generally supports .htaccess URL rewriting, which lets you map a domain to a subdirectory and host multiple sites under one account. Example: map htaccess.86k.xyz to the htaccess directory.

Contents of .htaccess in the Root Directory

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /

Bind htaccess.86k.xyz to the htaccess subdirectory

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^htaccess\.86k\.xyz$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/htaccess/ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ htaccess/$1?Rewrite [L,QSA] #You can map multiple domains; just repeat the three lines above and change the domain and directory names.

  Even without escaping the “.” in HTTP_HOST with a backslash, htaccess.86k.xyz will still match, because “.” matches any single character. Contents of .htaccess in the htaccess Directory

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / #Allow only the mapped domain; redirect other domains with a 301. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^htaccess\.86k\.xyz$ [NC] RewriteRule (.*) http://htaccess.86k.xyz/$1 [L,R=301] #Handle the htaccess directory under the bound directory RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/htaccess\/ [NC] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^(.*)?Rewrite #htaccess.800m.net/htaccess actually accesses htaccess.86k.xyz/htaccess/htaccess RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /%{REQUEST_URI}/%{REQUEST_URI}/$1?Rewrite [L,QSA]

For a simple mapping, you can leave out the .htaccess file inside the subdirectory. Source: crxis