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I was using Droplr with my domain, 'example.com', prepended with 'u.'. (u.example.com). The prepend was not a subdomain, and would redirect to Droplr via an A record to their server's IP Address.

Edit ---

In other words, I didn't create u.example.com as a subdomain of example.com, but rather created an A record to make it act like a subdomain.

However, I changed the domain being used with Droplr to example.com from u.example.com, and I am trying to setup a redirect with .htaccess to forward any requests to u.example.com/abcd to example.com/abcd.

I currently have the following, but it doesn't seem to have any affect on the domain. Please can you tell me where I am going wrong?

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^u.example.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.u.example.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
max_
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  • It might be because its saturday and I haven't had coffee, but this question makes no sense (among other things, u.example.com is *by definition* a subdomain of example.com). I think you may just have your terminology tied up in a marvelous knot (confused between subdomain and virtual host?) -- can you clarify a little bit? – voretaq7 Nov 10 '12 at 19:06
  • @voretaq7 Does that make a bit more sense? – max_ Nov 10 '12 at 19:08
  • Yes, much more :-) And Kamil's answer below is the easiest solution (avoid the headache of mod_rewrite entirely wherever possible :-) -- If you want to do it with rewrite rules you can, its just more work -- this question can point you in the right direction – voretaq7 Nov 10 '12 at 19:12
  • @voretaq7 I think that htaccess is actually the only way as I'm on shared hosting... – max_ Nov 10 '12 at 19:19

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Setup virtual domain u.example.com with alias www.u.example.com and inside the virtual server configuration do permanent redirect.

You don't need mod_rewrite, it's unnecessarily complicated and demanding.

In case you have "wildcard" hosting for entire *.example.com you can use following rules to normalize your URIs:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =u.example.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =www.u.example.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
Kamil Šrot
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  • I don't have access to setting up a virtual domain as I'm on shared hosting – max_ Nov 10 '12 at 19:19
  • If you're on shared hosting you're probably better off talking to your provider - they may have other restrictions in place that would cause you trouble... – voretaq7 Nov 10 '12 at 19:21
  • Hmm, that's a good point. Is there any other way in which I could do this without having to go through virtual domains? – max_ Nov 10 '12 at 19:23
  • @iBeProgrammer and are you sure, the request ends in your current hosting? If so, see my edited answer – Kamil Šrot Nov 10 '12 at 19:25