Let me preface this by saying that writing .htaccess files drives me completely insane...
I've got a sales website with a bunch of affiliates that should redirect to a shop site and then send the user back to the original sales site.
So what I want to do is have something like:
www.example.com/item/randomaffiliatenumber
(the "promo" directory doesn't actually exist).
redirect to:
subdomain.shop.com/item/randomaffiliatenumber
I mean I suppose I could MAKE an "item" directory with the same contents as "/" but that shouldn't be necessary. The main thing I want to do is have the affiliate code be passed to the shop site.
I tried:
RewriteRule ^item/(.*)$ http://subdomain.shop.com/item/$1
...but that didn't work.(Gave me a 404 saying "promo" wasn't found).
Meh... it was easier than I thought:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^item/(.*) https://subdomain.shop.com/item/$1 [NC,QSA]
Just needed to make those few adjustments and it worked. So I was actually closer than I thought.
In case anyone is wondering (.*) turns into the variable $1 in the second half. That should be enough to get you to where you want to go.