I have a .htaccess that maps a domain to a folder.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# redirect mapped domain
ReWriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} joshblease.uk.to
ReWriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !gme-index/
ReWriteRule ^(.*)$ gme-index/$1 [L]
Is there any way to edit/add extra domain maps to the file using PHP?
Simply, I want to get the contents of the .htaccess file and add to them using a PHP script.
As suggested in one of the comments above it is better to use RewriteMap for your case here rather than trying to edit .htaccess from PHP code directly. Here is a sample how to use it:
Add following line to your httpd.conf file:
RewriteMap domainMap txt://path/to/domain-dir.txt
Create a text file as /path/to/domain-dir.txt
like this:
sub1 /subdir1
sub2 /foodir2
foo /bar
Add these line in your .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ ${domainMap:%1} [L,R]
Effectively all this means is to have these redirects in place:
sub1.domain.com/ => sub1.domain.com/subdir1
sub2.domain.com/ => sub2.domain.com/foodir2
foo.domain.com/ => foo.domain.com/bar
Advantage: With this setup in place, you can edit or recreate the file /path/to/domain-dir.txt
as much as you want from your php code without opening a huge security hole be allowing php code o edit .htaccess directly.
This could work for your situation:
Ammend the .htaccess to look the following:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# redirect mapped domain
ReWriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} joshblease.uk.to
ReWriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !gme-index/
ReWriteRule ^(.*)$ gme-index/$1 [L]
###CUSTOM RULES###
php script assuming $rules holds the new generated rules to be ammended;
$htaccess = file_get_contents('/path/to/.htaccess');
$htaccess = str_replace('###CUSTOM RULES###', $rules."\n###CUSTOM RULES###", $htaccess);
file_put_contents('/path/to/.htaccess', $htaccess);
example above is theory and has not been tested, would be dependant upon .htaccess privledges and permissions of the script.
You could use the following htaccess to map any domain other than maindomain.com
to a folder that has the same name as the domain-name.
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
ReWriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !maindomain.com
ReWriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (.*)
ReWriteRule ^(.*)$ %1/$1 [L]
alternatively; to map the folder to the domainname without the ltd.
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
ReWriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !maindomain.com
ReWriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]*)
ReWriteRule ^(.*)$ %1/$1 [L]
Not exactly what you wanted, but it might work for you, and doesn't need any php.