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mod_rewrite subdomain & WordPress problem

Hey everyone,

sorry for my first post being a question, but I've been trying everything and googled everything all night.

For one of my sites, annoyed.me, I want a subdomain to redirect to a folder on the main site; for example:

wordpress.annoyed.me -> annoyed.me/?tag=wordpress

I think I've done all the required work: the wildcard dns is setup and the .htaccess is pretty much complete (I think) but it's throwing me a 500 error. Would this have something to do with WordPress?

This is my .htaccess code:

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>



        Options +FollowSymLinks 

        RewriteEngine on



        # BEGIN Subdomain

        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.annoyed\.me$ [NC] 

        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.annoyed\.me$ [NC] 

        RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ /index.php?tag=%1 [L]

        # END Subdomain



        # BEGIN WordPress

        RewriteBase /

        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

        RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

        # END WordPress



</IfModule>

If anyone could help me out? As far as I know, the mod_rewrite is working fine. I changed index.php?tag=%1 to tag/%1/ which then gave me a 404 error that it couldn't find the folder (with the correct naming etc ...)

Code:

[Sun Jul 20 11:55:51 2008] [error] [client 87.67.212.144] File does not exist: /home/annoyed/public_html/tag/redirect

Anyone have any clues on what could be giving me this 500 error? If you need any more information, just let me know.

EDIT: obviously, you can see the error here: http://prologue.annoyed.me (this is an actual tag, so if I would be able to fix this, it should show Prologue annoyed these people but, obviously, with http://prologue.annoyed.me)

If I understand what you want to do correctly I think you want to replace

Code:

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ /index.php?tag=%1 [L]

with something like this:

Code:

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ http://annoyed.me/?tag=%1 [R=301,L]

I haven't been able to test this out yet, but this should at least get you on the right track.

Yes, something similar... This works but the URL in the address bar is changed, something it shouldn't. When I remove the 301 redirect, it throws another 500 error.

I think it's because it conflicts with the way WordPress handles their own mod_rewrite rules...

Alright. So if someone types in wordpress.annoyed.me the address stays as wordpress.annoyed.me, but internally it is annoyed.me/?tag=wordpress?

What problems were you running into with:

Code:

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ /index.php?tag=%1 [L]

It was giving a 500 error... However, when I set it to redirect to a dir different from the WordPress install directory, it works fine.

My guess it has something to do with the WordPress .htaccess mod_rewrite rules? Is there maybe a way to combine the two different RewriteRules into a single one... Or would I have to add a exception to the WordPress .htaccess mod_rewrite rules?

Any suggestions are welcome :D

Sounds like your suspicions are right. I would need to play around with the wordpress .htaccess to get a better idea what exactly is causing the issue.

What error is displaying in the log when you have it as "/index.php?tag=%1"? That may shed some light on the issue.

http://prologue.annoyed.me/ - This gives you the 500 error;
Prologue annoyed these people - This is the page it should display.

It finds the page since it doesn't throw a 404 error. Appearantly, the .htaccess does something with the url which cuases it to give a 500 error.

I'm clueless tbqh.

I've tried to make them not clash, but no luck from the looks of it... My current .htaccess file:

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

 

        RewriteEngine on

        RewriteBase /



        # BEGIN Redirect www to non-www

        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.annoyed\.me$

        RewriteRule (.*) http://annoyed.me/$1 [R=301,L]

        # END Redirect www to non-www





        # BEGIN WordPress

        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^([^\.]+)\.annoyed\.me$ [NC] 

        RewriteRule . /index.php

        # END WordPress





        # BEGIN Subdomain

        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.annoyed\.me$ [NC] 

        RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ /index.php?tag=%1 [L]

        # END Subdomain



</IfModule>

The first set of rules have just been added, to redirect What is annoying you today? to annoyed.me.

If anyone could help me out, let me know! I am willing to compensate you!

The problem I can see with the .htaccess rule below is that the system is trying to accessing "/tag/redirect" instead of passing it through the wordpress system.

Code:

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ /tag/%1/index.php?tag=%1 [L]

I wasn't able to recreate this through a slightly modified rule (I used ^(.*)$ instead of ^([^/]+)$). ^([^/]+)$ did not work for me at all, which may be because I was testing it with a subdirectory instead of a subdomain.

If "/index.php?tag=%1" is causing a 500 error as well I'm curious what error is being recorded in the error log.

Besides that I think I'm as stumped as you are. Hopefully someone else has a solution they can post.