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If you type in the basic domain URL (www.website.com) you will end up at (www.mysite.com/forums/portal.php) as the index page.
I still want to use portal.php as my index page but I want to use a command in .htaccess that will automatically cut off the "/forums/portal.php" part so whenever I type in www.mysite.com that it displays www.mysite.com in the browser window instead of www.mysite.com/forums/portal.php
I already have the following command inside my /forums directory's .htaccess file.
DirectoryIndex portal.php index.php
Remember my portal page is in my forums directory and not my main directory. I am currently using a php redirect to redirect to my portal page. The php redirect (index.php) is located in my main directory. Is there a mod_rewrite rule for doing this?
To conclude - I simply am looking for a rule that will rewrite www.mysite.com/forums/portal.php to www.mysite.com
Thanks - all your help is greatly appreciated. :-)
That, transforms:
This:
[webmasterworld.com...]
Into this:
[webmasterworld.com...]
follow?
A simple mod of that could work for you, but it sounds like to me, that you already have other stuff going on.
If you already have a DirectoryIndex line, then you should be showing your root without the "/forums/portal.php" part already.
Which leads me to conclude, that there must be another redirect going on there already after someone requests your root page.
In that case, I don't think a rewrite rule is going to get you the transparency that you are after in the browser.
I would use a header checker, and see what your website is putting out during a request.
Get something like Proxomitron and turn on the logging feature. That will follow a chain of requests through and you can see what your website is putting out. If there is a hard redirect, you would want to deal with that before you deal with any rewrite rules.
