Custom subdomains with htaccess

Question

I have page structures like:

• example.com/aaa
• example.com/aaa/a1

• example.com/aaa/a2

• example.com/bbb

• example.com/bbb/b1

• example.com/bbb/b2

• example/com/ccc

• ........

What I need is instead example.com/xxx/x1, I want users to see xxx.example.com/x1

How can I achieve this with a rewrite rule? Or any other suggestions?

Subdomains module does not work for me because it doesnt allow custom subdomains.

Answer 1

I ended up creating a multisite structure.

1. Under sites folder I created a folder for each subdomain like: "aaa", "bbb",...
2. I created a settings.php inside each folder (starting with php tags, do not close it though):

include_once(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . "/default/settings.php");
$conf['site_frontpage'] = "aaa";

(It inherits the general settings.php file since I dont need very different settings per domain)

3. Created a sites.php file inside sites folder (again starting with php tags):

$sites['aaa.example.com'] = 'aaa';

$sites['bbb.example.com'] = 'bbb';

.......

Answer 2

xxx.example.com IS a subdomain. It could be set as example.com/xxx/, or xxx.example.com, doesn't really matter. The point is, you are trying to achieve a subdomain structure. And you should be able to set subdomains.