Pointing Multiple Domains to Different Folders

We have a number of different projects in the work right now, and don't what to pay for new hosting platforms for each domain name. What you can use to make this work is an .htaccess rewrite. Don't know what that is? Well basically what it does is tell your domain DNS to rewrite the pointing to a new folder, or sub folder.

For example you own two sites www.abc.com which helps kids learn how to read, and you want to create a different site say for math www.123.com , but you want both site hosted with the same package. So what you would need to create is an .htaccess file to point the two domains to different locations. Below is a sample .htaccess file using the addresses we talked about. Content you want to emphasize.

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / # pointing for the domain abc.com to folder abc ReWriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} abc.com ReWriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !abc/ ReWriteRule ^(.*)$ abc/$1 [L] # pointing for the domain 123.com to folder 123 ReWriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} 123.com ReWriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !123/ ReWriteRule ^(.*)$ 123/$1 [L]

Notice that each domain point to a different sub-folder. It isn't necessary to have both pointing to a sub-folder just the newly added domain. The folder is named after the %{REQUEST_URI} !123/ notice the 123 that is what we named our folder under the primary htdocs folder or on some domains the root folder (sometimes also called www).

You can copy the code from above, and paste it into a notepad document, and all you have to remember to do is save it as a .htaccess file.

Where do I place this File?