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manyxcxi
Asked: 2010-06-10 09:30:10 +0800 CST

Redirect Web Subfolder to Root (/folder to /)

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I am trying to redirect /folder to / using .htaccess but all am I getting is the Apache HTTP Server Test Page. My root directory looks like this:

/
.htaccess
-/folder
-/folder2
-/folder3

My .htaccess looks like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/folder/
RewriteRule (.*) /folder/$1

What am I doing wrong? I checked my httpd.conf (I'm running Centos) and the mod_rewrite library is being loaded. As a side note, my server is not a www server, it's simply a virtual machine so it's hostname is centosvm.

Addition: My httpd.conf looks like so:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName taa.local
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html
        SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "dev"
        Alias /taa /var/www/html/taa/public
        <Directory /var/www/html/taa/public>
                DirectoryIndex index.php
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
centos apache-2.2 .htaccess mod-rewrite

3 Answers

  1. Make sure Mod_Rewrite is loaded. Make sure you have AllowOverrides All on your root directory (it's the Apache default, but most distros have a default none in the httpd.conf file).

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  2. Best Answer

    I figured out that my <VirtualHost> declaration was missing a <Directory> declaration for root. By changing my <VirtualHost to:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName taa.local
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html
        SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "dev"
        Alias /folder1 /var/www/html/folder1/public
        <Directory /var/www/html>
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/html/folder1/public>
                DirectoryIndex index.php
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

    My /.htaccess looks like:

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/folder1/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/folder2/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/folder3/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/folder4/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/folder5/
RewriteRule (.*) folder1/$1 [L]

    It would be cleaner if I knew hot to say if REQUEST_URI = /, then redirect but I don't know how.

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  3. You need to drop the initial '/' from a match with RewriteCond

    See the examples in http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritecond

    RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^folder/ 
RewriteRule (.*) /folder/$1
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