masking a url

Just a quick question

I am trying to mask my url but when i type in the url it still shows the full code

eg i still see http://X.mydomain.com/index.php?ID=44&cat=44

where i want to see http://X.mydomain.com here is the code


RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^X.mydomain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^X.mydomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.X.mydomain.com/index.php?ID=44&cat=44 [R=301,L]

 

I suppose you remove [R=301,L] and leave [L] only. Wordpress does it like that:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
You can get request string by using $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

 

Hi all just getting back to this i am still seeing the full redirected url in the url bar
the coding looks like this

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /public_html/keyword
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^keyword.www.mydomain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.keyword.mydomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress-mu-1.5.1 [L]

the goal is that i wish to have wordpress mu with a subdomain eg keyword.mydomain.com
but its displaying wordpress-mu-1.5.1 when i redirect the url
also is does not append the string after it

 

1) You need to redirect the mask url, The non-masked url will not automatically convert to the masked one.

2) You must be needing to pass values of iD and cat , You are not doing that

 

i added $1 on the end and that passed the values to the url (Fixed)