[TYPO3] how to link subdomains that path to destination is not shown?

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi Andreas,

> is there a way to create a subdomain in TYPO3 and redirect it to another 
> directory/file on the server without showing the path on the server in 
> the url? I'd like to stick to the subdomain instead of the destinations 
> path.

You should have explained a bit more what you try to achieve but I'll 
try to explain to different options:

Let's say you have your TYPO3 website on http://www.domain.tld and 
physically on your server on /var/htdocs/domain.tld/www/.

1) Let's say you wish to access /another/directory/ content from 
http://www.domain.tld/somewhere/. This has nothing to do with TYPO3 but 
you may easily create a symbolic link in your TYPO3 home directory this way:

# cd /var/htdocs/domain.tld/www
# ln -s /another/directory somewhere

2) Let's say you wish to access only a single file /some/file.txt from 
http://www.domain.tld/fileadmin/mydirectory/file.txt (that is as if it 
were a file uploaded into TYPO3's fileadmin:

# cd /var/htdocs/domain.tld/www/fileadmin/mydirectory
# ln -s /some/file.txt

3a) You have another wish. There is an option in localconf.php (see the 
doc) to mount external directories but I never used it (folder are then 
shown with a blue icon in backend)

3b) You may use one of the multiple "file download" extensions to see 
whether it fulfills your needs

3c) Write your own frontend extension to do what you want

HTH

-- 
Xavier Perseguers
http://xavier.perseguers.ch/en/tutorials/typo3.html