Redirect Directory to a subdomain with case-insesitivity

[ranjeetm]

Hello Friends I have tried hard before posting but was not able to find a solution to my problem...If someone can help me I will be very great full ....


I want to redirect

http://www.domain.com/mail to http://mail.domain.com

(A CNAME entry) with case-insensitivity (also with or without WWW)

i.e
I also want

http://www.domain.com/Mail or mAil to redirect to http://mail.domain.com

that also with or without WWW

for e.g.

http://www.domain.com/mail --> http://mail.domain.com

http://www.domain.com/Mail --> http://mail.domain.com

http://www.domain.com/mAil --> http://mail.domain.com

http://domain.com/mail --> http://mail.domain.com

http://domain.com/Mail -->http://mail.domain.com

http://domain.com/mAil --> http://mail.domain.com

where

http://mail.domain.com

is a CNAME record I haven't added a directory of this name in my root directory...

Thanks in Advance.....

[Twinkie]

I am pretty sure that a CNAME record is not the best way to go. I would use .htaccess to redirect people who access any variation of /mail to mail., and there should be a CNAME record that covers a user appending a www. to the domain by removing it.

Exmaple: www.exmaple.com/mail

CNAME Record (step 1):
www.example.com/mail -> example.com/mail

.HTACCESS (step 2)
example.com/mail -> mail.example.com
http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml

I would rather you read the article for yourself and learn something

[bdistler]

htaccess Redirect and Rewrite will NOT work on server "boru"

[lemon-tree]

.htaccess should be functioning on all of the servers and if they are not then there is something odd going on. Anyway, here is an example .htaccess you could use:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^mail(/.*)?$ "http://mail.yourdomain.com$1" [R=301,L,NC]

This code will take into account all case-derivatives of 'mail', so 'Mail' and 'MAil' etc will all be redirected to http://mail.yourdomain.com . This will also redirect subdirectories of the mail folder to subdirectories in the mail subdomain, so sending a request for http://yourdomain.com/mail/folder1/folder2/file.php will redirect to http://mail.yourdomian.com/folder1/folder2/file.php .
I think this covers everything that you required in your request, to use this simply create a file called '.htaccess' in the root of the domain you are redirecting FROM (So put it in the folder where you put files for http://yourdomain.com) and put that code in that file.

[ranjeetm]

Thanks will implement ... will let you know if it works or not.....

[bdistler]

As for htaccess Redirect and Rewrite
check these threads...

.htaccess on server boru

Website redirects to 500 Internal Server Error