.htaccess rewrite to redirect root URL to subdirectory

Question

Trying to get

www.example.com

to go directly to

www.example.com/store

I have tried multiple bits of code and none work. Please help!

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?

Answer 1

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, set the R flag there as well:

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

Answer 2

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]

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

I think you can do it like this, in just one line, and without mod_rewrite:

Redirect permanent / /store

Answer 5

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]

Answer 6

and you can easily do it without htaccess at all, with php

create an index.php file and put in the code.

<?php
header('Location: http://example.com/subdir');
?>

done and done.