htaccess redirect subdomain

use your host’s cpanel or whatever and create a sub domain that uses that directory

after doing so, change the 2 url’s in
dashboard – settings – general
to the sub domain url

use your host’s cpanel or whatever and create a sub domain that uses that directory

after doing so, change the 2 url’s in
dashboard – settings – general
to the sub domain url

well i had already taken care of contacting my host and creating the subdomain that uses that directory. so that was already set up. i went to dashboard – settings – general and changed the 2 URL’s. now, there’s some weird stuff happening: if i browse to nightlife.bethany-ag.org, it just takes me to the same place as https://www.bethany-ag.org. try it yourself…
if i go to nightlife.bethany-ag.org/wp-admin, it tells me my password is wrong and then redirects me to the https://www.bethany-ag.org/wp-admin login screen.

i can’t even get back to the nightlife wp-admin to change the 2 URL’s back.

you can easily change the url’s back
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL

the subdomain is not set up correctly or it would work

edit –
are you sure you set BOTH url’s to the subdomain? because it looks as if one points to root

I actually have noticed this same problem with subdomains

any time you try to login to the subdomain with the admin credentials the page has been redirected to the wp-login.php page with this addresss

https://sub.domain.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fsub.domain.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1 . This is while being logged into the wp-admin of domain.com in another tab?

Do you have any idea why it has lost admin priveleges for the sub domain blog?

okay, i used the wp-config.php file to ensure the URL’s are set correctly by adding these lines:

define(‘WP_HOME’,’https://nightlife.bethany-ag.org’);
define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’https://nightlife.bethany-ag.org’);

i also used a different browser to make sure i was not logged into the admin for https://www.bethany-ag.org and tried to log into the admin for nightlife.bethany-ag.org and kept getting the same problem.

anything else you want me to try?

ok, so I went in and reset the database for the wordpress settings. the site URL’s are back to the default (bethany-ag.org/nightlife/). i have regained admin access. i’m back to square one. bethany-ag.org/nightlife/ now loads properly.

so apparently, after speaking to my host, my subdomain (nightlife.bethany-ag.org) doesn’t “use” any directory in the state that it’s set up. it just points to the IP of the main URL (bethany-ag.org). they said that’s what the 301 redirect in the .htaccess is for, to point nightlife.bethany-ag.org to the sub-directory where the site sits (bethany-ag.org/nightlife/)

still confused… wordpress is sitting in bethany-ag.org/nightlife/ All I want to do is share the website to people with the subdomain: “nightlife.bethany-ag.org” instead of the subdirectory. i never want “bethany-ag.org/nightlife/” to appear in the browser address bar, even though that’s where the WordPress install sits.

is that enough information to get some more specific instruction here?

I hope I am asking this question to the right forum.

I host my WP website and the domain name in domainname.com all subdomain names end in .php for example domainname.com/sumbomainname.php

The programmers who set up my site have installed redirect instructions to redirect numerous subdomainnames to other subdomain names and to the home. However, I no longer work with them. Long story.

I want to redirect a misnamed subdomain to the home page.

For example we already redirect domainname.com/subdomain.php to the home (domainname.com/index.php) page correctly. But now I want to redirect domainname.com/subdomain to domainname.com/index.php

@hawkeye21, you are in the right sub-forum but could you please start your own thread?

It’s the best way to get attention on your specific issue.