htacces redirects

Worker Joined: Feb 18, 2006 Posts: 155 Location: Virginia

What is the best htaccess code to use to redirect the root to a subfolder.
My site is in a subfolder.

currently I have this:

Code:

# Turn on rewrites.


RewriteEngine on





# Only apply to URLs on this domain


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain.com$





# Only apply to URLs that aren't already under folder.


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subfolder/





# Don't apply to URLs that go to existing files or folders.


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d





# Rewrite all those to insert /folder.


RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subfolder/$1





# Also redirect the root folder.


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain.com$


RewriteRule ^(/)?$ subfolder/index.php [L]

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

That should be more than enough. This might well suffice also.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^(www.)?domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/subfolder/$1 [L, nc]

Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:51 pm

I got an Internal Server error with that code Raven. I am looking
for a simpler code like your suggestion.

The one I posted makes visits to the root domain redirect to the
subfolder but the URL just shows the root domain. However, it also allows
direct access to the subfolder index.

Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:00 pm

Remove this code. Not all hosts let you use it.

Options +FollowSymlinks

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:29 am

Strange....even without that first line, I still get a 500 internal server error.

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:09 am

Hmmm, try this:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^(www.)?domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/subfolder/$1 [L]

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:37 am

I tried that as well, same error.

registered · Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:06 am

Maybe this:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/subfolder/$1 [L]

[Edited: I upper cased the HTTP_HOST after-the-fact]

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 6:34 am

The code I posted above works, but for some reason these snippets don't
I noticed the rewrite line looks different from what I posted above.

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:12 am

A problem that I think may be caused by my use of the redirect code that
I posted above.

Recall that my site is in a subfolder. I am trying to use an htaccess redirect
in the root to point visitors to the site. In my root however, I have other
subfolders with private files in them. When I set password protection for
one the these other folders (using Direct Admin) I keep getting a 403
error when I point my browser to the protected folder. I am prompted
to enter the user/pasword for the folder but afterwards I get the 403 error.

It's the 403.html that is included in my nuke subfolder. I do not have
a 403.html in my root.

I am just wondering if this redirect code it throwing off my call to other folder
in my root.

Any ideas?