Adding A Second Website Using .htaccess
Published by bigBert on Tagged .htaccess, Domains, PowWeb Hosting, Web Hosting Blog, Web Hosting GuidesI just added my second domain to my PowWeb account and one thing I discovered is that my second domain is just showing my first web site’s contents. Meaning every domain that I have on my account will redirect to my first domain. Hence, I needed a .htaccess code to assign my second domain to a subfolder on my ‘htdocs’ directory. I searched the PowWeb Forums and found useful information there.
I’ve written a .htaccess code, as advised on the forum, and saved it as ‘.htaccess’ on my home/htdocs/ directory. I needed an FTP program to upload this file because OPS‘ Filemanager does not support such type of filename.
My htaccess resembles the following piece of code:
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} second-domain-name.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !secondwebsite/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ secondwebsite/$1 [L]
Codes are case sensitive otherwise the second website will give you an “Internal Server Error” message when the domain is loaded.
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