Remove remote.php by using a subdomain - apache

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The issue you are facing:

So, I’m using Infuse for accessing my movies and so on on my server, but only using SMB for now. Webdav is supported, but it’s not supporting the .php extension.
My idea is now to create a subdomain, with a redirection to the real domain, but the .php extension is not needed. I tried multiple rewrite rules in apache, but I’m not getting it.

So, the idea in the end is to do this :

dav.files.example.com/some/directory -> files.example.com/remote.php/some/directory

I started with something like this :

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =dav.files.example.com

RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]

But I don’t really know how to finish this.

Thanks to all ! :slight_smile:

PS : I know, it’s not exactly for next cloud, but this will also be a solution for next cloud and Infuse :slight_smile:

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What do you mean by this? Are you saying Infuse supports WebDAV but has some issue with URLs with file extensions?

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Sorry for the late reply, I was expecting an email :slight_smile:

Yes, pretty much. The WebDAV option is present, but it only wants the address, and whatever I put after it will simply remove it, and use the remote.php as a location. Which means, the php file is simply not executed at all, so the WebDAV protocol is not starting.

Here is a topic I created for infuse forums years ago…