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AlphaSmith
AlphaSmith

Reputation:

How can I use .htaccess rewrite to redirect root URL to subdirectory?

Trying to get

www.example.com

to go directly to

www.example.com/store

I have tried multiple bits of code and none work.

What I've tried:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+)\www.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /samle/%1/$1 [L]

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 284

Views: 650685

Answers (19)

Μάκης Παλάσης
Μάκης Παλάσης

Reputation: 308

I'll answer the original question not by pointing out another possible syntax (there are many amongst the other answers) but by pointing out something I have once had to deal with, that took me a while to figure out:

What am I doing wrong?

There is a possibility that %{HTTP_HOST} is not being populated properly, or at all. Although, I've only seen that occur in only one machine on a shared host, with some custom patched apache 2.2, it's a possibility nonetheless.

Upvotes: 0

mikeytown2
mikeytown2

Reputation: 1764

This will try the subdir if the file doesn't exist in the root. Needed this as I moved a basic .html website that expects to be ran at the root level and pushed it to a subdir. Only works if all files are flat (no .htaccess trickery in the subdir possible). Useful for linked things like css and js files.

# Internal Redirect to subdir if file is found there.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_URI} !-s
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/subdir/%{REQUEST_URI} -s
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdir/$1 [L]

Upvotes: 1

Karthikeyan Ganesan
Karthikeyan Ganesan

Reputation: 2035

you just add this code into your .htaccess file 

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /folder/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Upvotes: 1

Mushtaq Hussain
Mushtaq Hussain

Reputation: 721

Two ways out of possible solutions to achieve this are: 1. Create a .htaccess file in root folder as under (just replace example.com and my_dir with your corresponding values):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/my_dir/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /my_dir/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ my_dir/index.php [L] 
</IfModule>

  1. Use RedirectMatch to only redirect the root URL “/” to another folder or URL,

    RedirectMatch ^/$ http://www.example.com/my_dir

Upvotes: 5

Abhishek Gurjar
Abhishek Gurjar

Reputation: 7476

One can use Redirect too for this purpose

Redirect 301 / www.example.com/store

Or Alias for mapping

Alias / /store

Edit: mod_alias is only applicable in httpd.conf.

Refrences

Upvotes: 3

Dio Phung
Dio Phung

Reputation: 6282

I was surprised that nobody mentioned this:

RedirectMatch ^/$ /store/

Basically, it redirects the root and only the root URL. The answer originated from this link

Upvotes: 192

Gumbo
Gumbo

Reputation: 655707

Try this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^$ store [L]

If you want an external redirect (which cause the visiting browser to show the redirected URL), set the R flag there as well:

RewriteRule ^$ /store [L,R=301]

Upvotes: 117

Amit Verma
Amit Verma

Reputation: 41249

To set an invisible redirect from root to subfolder, You can use the following RewriteRule in /root/.htaccess :

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subfolder
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subfolder/$1 [NC,L]

The rule above will internally redirect the browser from :

to

And

to

while the browser will stay on the root folder.

Upvotes: 45

eQ19
eQ19

Reputation: 10711

Formerly I use the following code which is work correctly to redirect root URL of each of my domains/subdomains to their correspondence subdirectories which are named exactly as the sub/domain it self as below:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub1.domain1.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subs/sub1.domain1.com/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subs/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub2.domain1.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subs/sub1.domain2.com/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subs/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub1.domain2.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subs/sub1.domain2.com/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subs/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub2.domain2.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subs/sub2.domain2.com/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subs/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,QSA]

However when I want to add another subs or domains then it will need to be added in the above code. It should be much more convenient to simplify it to work like wildcard (*) as below:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/subs/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subs/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,QSA]

So whenever another subdomains/domains is added as long as the subdomain name has a prefix of sub (like: sub3.domain1.com, sub1.domain3.com etc.) the code will remain valid.

Upvotes: 4

Mahmoud Zalt
Mahmoud Zalt

Reputation: 31210

Most of the above solutions are correct but they are all missing the transparency of the redirection.

In my case, when visiting www.example.com I wanted to get redirected to the subdirectory /store but without updating the URL to www.example.com/store. (all I want is to get the page code form that directory). If that is your case the solution below works perfectly.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /store/$1 [L]

source: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Transparently_redirect_your_root_directory_to_a_subdirectory

Upvotes: 11

inf3rno
inf3rno

Reputation: 26137

I don't understand your question...

If you want to redirect every request to a subfolder:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ shop/$1 [L,QSA]

http://www.example.com/* -> wwwroot/store/*

If you want to redirect to a subfolder which has the domain name

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ([^\.]+\.[^\.]+)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %1/$1 [L,QSA]

http://www.example.com/* -> wwwroot/example.com/*

Upvotes: 8

gaborous
gaborous

Reputation: 16620

Another alternative if you want to rewrite the URL and hide the original URL:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /store/$1 [L]

With this, if you for example type http://www.example.com/product.php?id=4, it will transparently open the file at http://www.example.com/store/product.php?id=4 but without showing to the user the full url.

Upvotes: 26

Abouasy
Abouasy

Reputation: 896

try to use below lines in htaccess

Note: you may need to check what is the name of the default.html

default.html is the file that load by default in the root folder.

RewriteEngine

Redirect /default.html http://example.com/store/

Upvotes: 1

user1801050
user1801050

Reputation: 161

This seemed the simplest solution:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/store [R=301,L]

I was getting redirect loops with some of the other solutions.

Upvotes: 16

Nir O.
Nir O.

Reputation: 1651

I have found that in order to avoid circular redirection, it is important to limit the scope of redirection to root directory. I would have used:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/store [R=301,L]

Upvotes: 7

Jage
Jage

Reputation: 8096

Here is what I used to redirect to a subdirectory. This did it invisibly and still allows through requests that match an existing file or whatever. 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdir/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdir/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ subdir/index.php [L]

Change out site.com and subdir with your values.

Upvotes: 82

Sander
Sander

Reputation:

You can use a rewrite rule that uses ^$ to represent the root and rewrite that to your /store directory, like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ /store [L]

Upvotes: 306

Steven
Steven

Reputation: 19445

A little googling, gives me these results:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.(.*)?$ http://domain.com/subfolder/ [r=301]

This will redirect any attempt to access a file named index.something to your subfolder, whether the file exists or not.

Or try this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.sample.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{HTTP_HOST}/samlse/$1 [R=301,L]

I haven't done much redirect in the .htaccess file, so I'm not sure if this will work.

Upvotes: 2

Artem Russakovskii
Artem Russakovskii

Reputation: 22023

I think the main problems with the code you posted are:

  • the first line matches on a host beginning with strictly sample.com, so www.sample.com doesn't match.

  • the second line wants at least one character, followed by www.sample.com which also doesn't match (why did you escape the first w?)

  • none of the included rules redirect to the url you specified in your goal (plus, sample is misspelled as samle, but that's irrelevant).

For reference, here's the code you currently have:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sample.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.sample.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+)\www.sample\.com$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /samle/%1/$1 [L]

Upvotes: 3

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