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I'm dumb as a rock when it comes to scripting stuff, so please bare with me.
Is there a way of of getting an alias to my site sent to a specific directory? If so, how so? I've heard that htaccess would be the way to go.
Any help would be appreciated.
Welcome to WebmasterWorld.
It's not clear from your question what you mean by 'alias to my site'. Perhaps that's why there haven't been any responses yet.
I can think of a few things you might be trying to do, and will give some general suggestions.
If what you are trying to do is have a separate domain point to a specific directory on your site (e.g. you have mydomain.com as well as mywidgets.com, and you want mywidgets.com to display mydomain.com/widgets/index.htm) your best bet is probably through DNS. The procedure is going to depend on your web host; on mine, I can go into my control panel, add an additional domain, and specify the root directory of the domain.
You could also do this with .htaccess, using something like:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mywidgets\.com
RewriteRule (.*) [mydomain.com...] [R=301,L]
The other thing you may be trying to do is to is redirecting a directory to a filename to make an easy to remember URL (e.g. you want www.mydomain.com/widgets/ to redirect to www.mydomain.com/pages/html/long-name/widgets.htm
In this case, use
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/widgets/ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) [mydomain.com...] [R=301,L]
If you're trying to do something else, let us know, and I'm sure someone will have an answer.
Here's what I ended up using:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} www.widgets\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!/widgets_folder
RewriteRule (.*) /widgets_folder/$1 [L]
