PHP Doc Root Question

[kbc1]

HI all

I have a CMS which uses tidy URLs. We install the CMS onto a sub domain as such:

admin.mydomain.com

All pages are then run via the following example URLs:

admin.mydomain.com/sign-in
admin.mydomain.com/page-edit
admin.mydomain.com/other-stuff/other-stuff-again

Now we have to install this on a hosting package that does not allow the subdomain to be setup in this way, essentially the hosting company has explained that their subdomain setup will be as follows:

mydomain.com/admin/

The admin folder will contain the scripts for the admin site however as our CMS uses tidy URL's the URL will always contain the word "admin" which breaks the admin system and locations of all files and folders used within it when we use PHP's Doc Root super global.

Is there a way around this maybe using htaccess or some secret PHP functionality I have never used before?!

Thanks for reading

[jeepin81]

First, I am probably the wrong person to reply to this thread b/c I'm not very good with .htaccess. So, you've been warned.

However, maybe this will point you in the right direction. I would point all of your subdomain traffic to the 'admin' directory.

example:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^admin.yoursite.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /admin/$1 [L]

After typing that out, I'm thinking you'll probably need the rewritecond added to the apache config since it's based on a subdomain.

I'm sure someone else here has a better solution.

[bradgrafelman]

kbc1;11009619 wrote:

Is there a way around this

Most certainly; ditch the incompetent hosting company who isn't serving your needs and find one who will.