How to use different domains for different blogs hosted in the same host in subdomains with .htaccess

Question

Background

i have a website running on wordpress and all its files are located in public_html of my host. Within it i created a sub domain "phantomomaga" and redirected an other domain to that sub domain to make it "www.phantomomaga.tk" instead of "phantomomaga.my-domain.com" for this i added some code to the .htaccess of my public_html as told here to make it like follow

Code

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

#Fix missing trailing slash character on folders.
RewriteRule ^([^.?]+[^.?/])$ $1/ [R,L]

#www.phantomomaga.tk and phantomomaga.tk will map to the folder {root}/phantomomaga/
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} ^(?:www\.)?phantomomaga\.tk$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/phantomomaga/
RewriteRule ^(.*) phantomomaga/$1 [NC,L,NS]

Problem

Due to this edit i was able to achieve what i wanted but for some reason not known to me now the permalink of my subdomain is not working and i keep getting not found errors from my wordpress install that is in my root folder and if i remove

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress 

from the .htaccess the sub domain works perfectly but the root one messes up so i think the problem is with the .htaccess of either of root or sub domain and i cant figure out the solution even after i googled it so please help.

Answer 1

You need a vhost for the subdomain that redirects to public_html/sub_domain_folder instead of trying to redirect with .htaccess. You can then do a www redirect in public_html/sub_domain_folder/.htaccess.

There should be some option in cpanel when creating the subdomain do specify which folder it directs to if you don't have direct access to your vhost.

Answer 2

i finny found the solution my self and i am now posting it here so that others can benefit from it

this i relapsed the whole code of my .htaccess with the following and it worked

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# ---------------------------------------
# BEGIN Domain to folder mapping

# pointing phantomomaga.tk to phantomomaga
ReWriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} phantomomaga.tk
ReWriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !phantomomaga/
ReWriteRule ^(.*)$ phantomomaga/$1 [L]

# END Domain to folder mapping
# ---------------------------------------

# ---------------------------------------
# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress
# ---------------------------------------

# ---------------------------------------
# BEGIN htaccess pretection

<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

# END htaccess pretection
# ---------------------------------------

</IfModule> 

you can do so with multiple domains like follow

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# ---------------------------------------
# BEGIN Domain to folder mapping

# pointing domain_1.com to folder_1
ReWriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain_1.com
ReWriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !folder_1/
ReWriteRule ^(.*)$ folder_1/$1 [L]

# pointing domain_2.com to folder_2
ReWriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain_2.com
ReWriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !folder_2/
ReWriteRule ^(.*)$ folder_2/$1 [L]

# END Domain to folder mapping
# ---------------------------------------

# ---------------------------------------
# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress
# ---------------------------------------

# ---------------------------------------
# BEGIN htaccess pretection

<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

# END htaccess pretection
# ---------------------------------------

</IfModule> 

Source=http://wordpress.org/support/topic/success-mapping-multiple-domains-to-different-folders-with-htaccess?replies=1#post-593544