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Setting up subdomains with .htaccess

I would like to setup a subdomain so that when a user types http://news.example.com the content displayed in the browser comes from the directory example.com/news. I have updated the .htaccess file and it performs a redirect. I would like to know if it would be possible to maintain the subdomain present in the URL (https://news.example.com) instead of the redirect (http://www.example.com/news)

Please see code below

# redirect subdomain to the specific folder
# host does not start with www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.example\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://example.com/%1/$1 [R=301,L]

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Hello,

Thank you to both of you for your help. Unfortunately, your recommendations are not quite what I was looking for. The examples do perform a redirect but I am interested in a silent/transparent redirect, so the user does not know that he/she is being redirected. So when the user types http://news.example.com, the content should be obtained from the directory /news (http://example.com/news) but the URL bar in the browser shall display http://news.example.com after the redirect.

I have read that I might have to update the vhosts file and maybe DNS (wildcard A)...do you have any recommendations?

Thanks again.

nosolb

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The answer was helpful but did not fully resolve my problem. Thank you.