Simple .htaccess subdomain rewrite

Question

I know there is a lot of questions on here about this... but right now I feel like a deer stunned by oncoming headlights... I just don\'t know where to start and which optio

Answer 1

I posted this question onto serverfault.com and icyrock solved it. Incase anyone else is wondering the answer given is here:

https://serverfault.com/questions/203780/troubleshooting-a-htaccess-wildcard-subdomain-rewrite/203804#203804

Tim

Answer 2

Simplest way in .htaccess would be to put the following in an htaccess file as high up in the hierarchy as possible.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.application\.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^application\.* [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.domain.com/application [L]