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I would like to create admin.example.com, The URL router I am using is www.example.com/admin, I do not want to share the same login session. So I am thinking to use subdomain to solve this issue.

the admin actually is not a folder, it is a route from my route file. I am using Laravel 5.1.

What I want is when user access http://admin.example.com, it actually pointing to http://www.example.com/admin. However, user browser still showing http://admin.example.com

Any idea how do I able to in .htaccess?

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

#Below is the code I added for the admin subdomain which doing a redirect, but I would like a mapping, not redirect
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^admin.example.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/admin/$1 [L,NC,QSA]
#end of subdomain

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . index.php [L]

Above code what it does is redirect, but what I want to a mapping.

vhost config file

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName www.example.com
        DocumentRoot "C:\Bitnami\www\example.com\public"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName admin.example.com
        DocumentRoot "C:\Bitnami\www\example.com\public"
</VirtualHost>
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This is not possible with a .htaccess. You have to configure the VirtualHost directly in the Apache config.

You can combine your two VirtualHosts:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.example.com
    ServerAlias admin.example.com
    DocumentRoot "C:\Bitnami\www\example.com\public"
</VirtualHost>

Then you have to adapt your routing in Laravel. But this turns the question in a programming question, making it off topic for this site. I found some examples in a quick google search for laravel multiple domains, I suggest you do the same.

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  • I had added the virtualhost on the subdomain, I had updated my question, the /admin actually is not a folder, it is a routing from a controller. – Shiro May 8 '17 at 9:30
  • Please add the virtualhost configuration to your question – Gerald Schneider May 8 '17 at 9:32
  • both is the set to the same folder, I had added – Shiro May 8 '17 at 9:36
  • I am not looking for multiple domain, I actually want ppl access admin.example.com is pointing to www.example.com/admin, maybe the question is proxy? – Shiro May 8 '17 at 9:42
  • Having two domains (normal and subdomain) IS multiple domains. Of course you can proxy apache to itself, you can also force redirects for all example.com/admin requests to admin.example.com, but both ways don't make much sense. The proper way to do this is to adapt the routing. – Gerald Schneider May 8 '17 at 9:46
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It sounds like you're looking for a Reverse Proxy. Normally the easiest is to configure that from the VirtualHost entry:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName admin.example.com
        ProxyPass / http://www.example.com/admin/
        ProxyPassReverse / http://www.example.com/admin/
</VirtualHost>

But the ProxyPass directive is also valid in a .htaccess context.

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  • It works for the homepage. When I access to admin.example.com, it redirect to admin.example.com/login. However, when I post the form, it keep redirect back the admin.example.com/login, When I view the source it is still showing example.com/admin/login I also tried added in routes.php below code:- \URL::forceRootUrl('admin.example.com/'); When I view the source it is showing http://admin.example.com/admin/login/ which is not correct, it should be http://admin.example.com/login/ – Shiro May 9 '17 at 3:40

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