Redirect a subdomain to a specific url using DNS

Question

I've redirected my domain http://domain1.com to http://domain2.com using a 301 redirect.

Now i would like to redirect subdomain.domain1.com to domain2.com/folder when the user arrives on that url.

Can I do this in dns? Or in some other way?

Thank you for your help!

Answer 1

You can not do this with DNS. DNS is used to map domain names to IP address(es). It can not resolve a domain to a specific URI.

Answer 2

If you use an Apache server you can achieve this using .htaccess file. You can try adding following lines to the file and see whether it works.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?subdomain.domain1\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain2.net/subfolder$1

(or)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain\.domain1\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.domain2.net/subfolder$1