mod rewrite subdirectory as root

Question

I am needing to rewrite www.domain.com/newsite/ as www.domain.com/, basically I am doing this just in case the new site has some unexpected problem, I can easily roll-back to the original by editing the .htaccess file...

Answer 1

Try this rule:

RewriteRule !^newsite/ newsite%{REQUEST_URI}

It will rewrite any request that does not start with /newsite/ to /newsite/.