htaccess rewrite to redirect root URL to subdirectory

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Trying to get  www example com   to go directly to  www example com store   I have tried multiple bits of code and none work   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

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I have found that in order to avoid circular redirection  it is important to limit the scope of redirection to root directory  I would have used   RewriteEngine on RewriteCond   REQUEST URI      RewriteRule      http   www example com store  R 301 L

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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

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This seemed the simplest solution   RewriteEngine on RewriteCond   REQUEST URI      RewriteRule      http   www example com store  R 301 L    I was getting redirect loops with some of the other solutions

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you just add this code into your  htaccess file     lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt      RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase       RewriteRule  index  php  -  L      RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f     RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d     RewriteRule    folder index php  L   lt  IfModule gt

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try to use below lines in htaccess   Note  you may need to check what is the name of the default html  default html is the file that load by default in the root folder   RewriteEngine  Redirect  default html http   example com store

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Formerly I use the following code which is work correctly to redirect root URL of each of my domains subdomains to their correspondence subdirectories which are named exactly as the sub domain it self as below   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   sub1 domain1 com RewriteCond   REQUEST URI   subs sub1 domain1 com  RewriteRule        subs   HTTP HOST   1  L QSA   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   sub2 domain1 com RewriteCond   REQUEST URI   subs sub1 domain2 com  RewriteRule        subs   HTTP HOST   1  L QSA   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   sub1 domain2 com RewriteCond   REQUEST URI   subs sub1 domain2 com  RewriteRule        subs   HTTP HOST   1  L QSA   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   sub2 domain2 com RewriteCond   REQUEST URI   subs sub2 domain2 com  RewriteRule        subs   HTTP HOST   1  L QSA    However when I want to add another subs or domains then it will need to be added in the above code  It should be much more convenient to simplify it to work like  wildcard     as below   RewriteCond   HTTP HOST   sub RewriteCond   REQUEST URI    subs  RewriteRule        subs   HTTP HOST   1  L QSA    So whenever another subdomains domains is added as long as the subdomain name has a prefix of sub  like  sub3 domain1 com  sub1 domain3 com etc   the code will remain valid

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Another alternative if you want to rewrite the URL and hide the original URL   RewriteEngine on RewriteRule         store  1  L    With this  if you for example type http   www example com product php id 4  it will transparently open the file at http   www example com store product php id 4 but without showing to the user the full url

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I ll answer the original question not by pointing out another possible syntax  there are many amongst the other answers  but by pointing out something I have once had to deal with  that took me a while to figure out   What am I doing wrong   There is a possibility that   HTTP HOST  is not being populated properly  or at all  Although  I ve only seen that occur in only one machine on a shared host  with some custom patched apache 2 2  it s a possibility nonetheless

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I don t understand your question     If you want to redirect every request to a subfolder   RewriteRule        shop  1  L QSA   http   www example com   - gt  wwwroot store     If you want to redirect to a subfolder which has the domain name  RewriteCond   HTTP HOST                    RewriteRule         1  1  L QSA   http   www example com   - gt  wwwroot example com

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To set an invisible redirect from root to subfolder  You can use the following RewriteRule in  root  htaccess    RewriteEngine on  RewriteCond   REQUEST URI     subfolder RewriteRule         subfolder  1  NC L    The rule above will internally redirect the browser from     http   example com    to   http   example com subfolder   And   http   example com foo   to   http   example com subfolder foo   while the browser will stay on the root folder

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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  which cause the visiting browser to show the redirected URL   set the R flag there as well   RewriteRule     store  L R 301

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Two ways out of possible solutions to achieve this are  1  Create a  htaccess file in root folder as under  just replace example com and my dir with your corresponding values     lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt  RewriteEngine on RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www   example com  RewriteCond   REQUEST URI     my dir  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteRule         my dir  1 RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www   example com  RewriteRule        my dir index php  L    lt  IfModule gt     Use RedirectMatch to only redirect the root URL         to another folder or URL   RedirectMatch     http   www example com my dir

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Here is what I used to redirect to a subdirectory  This did it invisibly and still allows through requests that match an existing file or whatever    RewriteEngine on RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www   site com  RewriteCond   REQUEST URI     subdir  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteRule         subdir  1 RewriteCond   HTTP HOST    www   site com  RewriteRule        subdir index php  L    Change out site com and subdir with your values

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Most of the above solutions are correct but they are all missing the transparency of the redirection   In my case  when visiting www example com I wanted to get redirected to the subdirectory  store but without updating the URL to www example com store   all I want is to get the page code form that directory   If that is your case the solution below works perfectly   RewriteEngine on RewriteCond   HTTP HOST  example  com  NC  RewriteCond   REQUEST URI      RewriteRule         store  1  L    source  http   wiki dreamhost com Transparently redirect your root directory to a subdirectory

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One can use Redirect too for this purpose  Redirect 301   www example com store   Or Alias for mapping  Alias    store   Edit  mod alias is only applicable in httpd conf   Refrences   http   httpd apache org docs 2 2 mod mod alias html https   httpd apache org docs trunk rewrite avoid html

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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

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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

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I was surprised that nobody mentioned this   RedirectMatch      store    Basically  it redirects the root and only the root URL  The answer originated from this link

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This will try the subdir if the file doesn t exist in the root  Needed this as I moved a basic  html website that expects to be ran at the root level and pushed it to a subdir  Only works if all files are flat  no  htaccess trickery in the subdir possible   Useful for linked things like css and js files     Internal Redirect to subdir if file is found there  RewriteEngine on RewriteCond   DOCUMENT ROOT    REQUEST URI   -s RewriteCond   DOCUMENT ROOT  subdir   REQUEST URI  -s RewriteRule         subdir  1  L

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