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I want to redirect my domain to a directory /home
What I want is, either http://www.example.com is accessed or http://example.com it should be redirected to www.example.com/home
How can I do that?
One is a redirect, the other is a rewrite. The code is slightly different.
Check the previous threads here and post your best effort code as a basis for discussion.
However, I will note that redirecting your root URL to a deep internal page is not the best of things to be doing.
You will also need to check both www and non-www responses, and what happens when you include the index file filename in the request - those others also need to redirect, otherwise you are serving the same page of content at multiple URLs.
I'm using this rewrite code, but when I go directly to www, it stay on root.
[edited by: jdMorgan at 6:48 pm (utc) on Sep. 30, 2008]
[edit reason] example.com [/edit]
You needed both www and non-www, so you can omit the domain check.
Just as (.*) means all URLs, ^$ means only "/" root.
Just before that "catch all" rule, you will need one to strip off the index file filename if one is requested.
So, three (at least) rules in all, and their order is important.
You don't need the line
RewriteBase /
Which bit didn't you understand?
RewriteBase /Put the
RewriteEngine OnCopy the two-line rule out twice so you have two copies of it.
First copy:
Delete the
RewriteCond(.*)^$Second copy:
Change
/home//$1Finally, go fetch the redirect for named index files that redirects back to "/" rule that has been posted every day this week, and insert it between those two rules.
Post back here when done.
I have done this code, and I think its doing right.
[edited by: jdMorgan at 6:50 pm (utc) on Sep. 30, 2008]
[edit reason] Please use example.com [/edit]
Additionally, your rule only now works for the www version, because it only tests for www.yoursite.com URLs.
Change what you have above so that
www.\(www\.)?Note that your code has .\ when it should be \. and that you must add the ( and ) and ? to it.
This stuff does exactly what you type and is completely unforgiving of typos and misunderstandings.
Finally, you will need to look at the other rules I suggested. To not do so is letting your site serve Duplicate Content.
[edited by: g1smd at 10:04 am (utc) on Sep. 30, 2008]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (www\.)?example\.com$ [NC]
[edited by: jdMorgan at 6:50 pm (utc) on Sep. 30, 2008]
[edit reason] example.com [/edit]
Now take a look at the other two rules that you will need to add to do the job properly.
One is to fix things so that index filename requests have the "index" filename stripped off - that code is in many other threads here.
The other is to redirect all non-www requests to www - I posted how to do that, above.
domain.com/folder/
www.domain.com/folder/
domain.com/folder/index.html
www.domain.com/folder/index.htmlYou will want to list
www.domain.com/folder/
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (www\.)?example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.example.com/home/$1 [R=301,L]
Please review all the previous instructions. It looks like you are mixing things up between the different rules.
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^/]*/)*index\.(html?Šphp)(\?[^\ ]*)?\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(([^/]*/)*)index\.(html?Šphp)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Change "example" to be your site's domain.
Feel free to post specific questions here -- Our purpose here is to help you learn, not to simply provide cut-and-paste code.
Jim
@g1smd, I have my index page as index.htm and not html, so I should change that to htm in the code?
is it fine now?
[edited by: jdMorgan at 6:52 pm (utc) on Sep. 30, 2008]
[edit reason] example.com [/edit]
Lines 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 should be 1 - 3 - 4 - 2 - 5
But that's still only two of the rules you need.
Lose the $1 from the end of the URL in line 5.
You seem to have lost the general "non-www" to "www" rule that needs to go after all of this. That's an extra two lines to go on the end.
