Instead, I want mod_rewrite to do it, which it does. I have a virtualhost that handles *.istic.net, and passes it on to the following .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule     ^.*.istic.net.*$        -       [L]
RewriteRule   (.*) %{HTTP_HOST}/$1

Which redirects “http://ritual.istic.net” to ”~/sites/istic/ritual.istic.net”, which is what I want.

That shouldn’t have taken as many hours as it did, so I’m writing it down.

Secondly, I’ve moved my braindump – hol.istic.net – to a temporary new home whilst the DNS resolves. By the wonders of my new domain name, it’s temporarily housed at supercalifragil.istic.net which is possibly the best subdomain ever :-)

So, my personal “hire me” site could go to “narciss.isitic.net”, I could move all my open source projects to “altru.istic.net”, set up a site about religion at ritual.istic, head of into the futur.istic and be all m.istic about it and whenever I got fed up with the whole blogging thing and needed to move, I can always go ball.istic.

This isn’t actually far from the plan, which is to move the far flung tin-pot empires of AqCom that are getting lost under five years of journal archives & articles, and move them to their own domains – or subdomains, or sub-subdomains – where they can live happily ever after.

Forever is a continuous multi-branching story system in the vein of those “Fighting Fantasy” books, or solitare adventures, or whatever you reference them to. It’s been down for a few weeks – not that anyone noticed – since I moved all the libraries around, and it’s back now.

Forever is good, go see Forever