.htaccess URL reroute to different folder based on first part of query

Question

Here is my .htaccess now

rewriteengine on
rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$ [OR]
rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$
rewriterule ^index.php/? "http\:\/\/example\.com\/" [R=301,L] #4a397bb852bc9

Which sends all requests from the root directory to index.php What I need to do is send all requests from www.example.com/site2/ to www.example.com/site2/index.php

My understanding of regex has always stopped short of these curious rules and conds

Thanks, Joe

Answer 1

The rule you named redirects any request, that’s URL path starts with index.php followed by an optional slash and that’s host name is either www.example.com or example.com, with the status code 301 to http://example.com/.

But if you want to rewrite requests from one directory to another, try this rule:

RewriteRule ^folder-1/?([^/].*)?$ folder-2/$1 [L]

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Edit   In response to your comment:

RewriteCond $0 !=site2/index.php
RewriteRule ^site2/.* site/index.php [L]