I have a multi-site installation like
- example.com/drupal (default)
- site1.example.com
- site2.example.com
- site3.example.com
example.org → site3.example.com
Now, I have an additional domain example.org, which shall be used for site3.example.com. So, when a user enters example.org, he shall be redirected(?) internally(!) to site3.example.com. So, the user shall not see any redirection and he shall not be able to see, that the site is available at site3.example.com, too.
site3.example.com → example.org
When the user enters site3.example.com directly, it would be cool if he would get redirected(?) to example.org. But that's no need (but then it should be possible to use robots.txt for site3.example.com, though, so that I don't get duplicate content)
Where is the problem?
So, why not point example.org to the Drupal multi-site installation directly (and use it instead of site3.example.com)? Well, that is not possible, because at my shared webhoster I can't point example.org to a directory at example.com.
Is it possible?
Maybe with the help of mod_rewrite/.htaccess?
I want to stay independent of example.org in a way. It might be possible that the domain will be selled, and the new owner shall be able to point this URL still to my site (and the users shall only see his URL, not the "real" address of my site). So, my site shall always "be there" (at site3.example.com), no matter whether example.org is active or where it leads too.
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Any idea?
Would be very nice.
In the mean time I read something of "A Records", but I don't have this functionality :/
settings.php trick
Install your site at example.org (this is just to simplify things). Build all your content at example.org.
Create a folder in /sites for site3.example.com
Create settings.php in /sites/site3.example.com
In /sites/site3.example.com/settings.php, put this:
<?php
header('Location: http://www.example.org');
exit();
When you go to example.org, you will see the content for example.org
When you go to site3.example.com, you will get redirected to example.org
Alternatively, build the site at example.org, then do this stuff in a terminal
cd sites
mkdir site3.example.com
cp example.org/settings.php site3.example.com/settings.php
cd site3.example.com
ln -s ../example.org/files files
ln -s ../example.org/modules modules
ln -s ../example.org/themes themes
This will make site3.example.com pull from the same database, files, modules, and themes that example.org pulls from.
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Hm, I think I did not get it
Hm, I think I did not get it fully ...
The site is installed at "example.com/drupal" -- I don't want to change this anymore.
A subsite of this multisite-installation is "sport.example.com". This works great.
Now I want to use the domain "sport.tld" for this subsite.
So, when a visitor enters "sport.tld/node/17", he gets the page "sport.example.com/node/17" -- but without noticing it. So the URL bar should still show "sport.tld/node/17".
And I'd love to get this by adding a htaccess to sport.tld
(the domain might change ownership, and the new owner shall be able to use his new domain to get the content of my site)