How to redirect multiple folders to the reflecting subdomain with .htaccess

Hi,

i tried redirecting some folders to the subdomains with the same names as the folders. I tried this way but it didn't work:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(test1|test2)(.*?)$ http://$1.domain.com$2 [R=301,L]

I guess the problem is that the alternation of folders doesn't return a result that i can get into $1, right?

I'm not a PCRE expert so andy help would be appreciated.

From stackoverflow

• Try with this:

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/yoursub
  
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yoursub.domain.com/$1 [L]
  

  The 2 lines in the middle will prevent redirecting if that folder or file exists. To remove file and folder exception, comment out that 2 lines, and stay with this only:

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/yoursub
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yoursub.domain.com/$1 [L]
  

  : Probably my question wasn't clear enough: I want to redirect different folders to different subdomains. The subdomains have the same name as the folders and i'd like to have only one rewrite for all of them. Example: /test -> test.domain.com Example2: /dog -> dog.domain.com

  CuSS : why don't you configure out the apache insted of rewrite? http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23