Redirect to another folder

Question

I read this .htaccess rewrite to redirect root URL to subdirectory and i\'m trying to achieve the same things.

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Answer 1

The example you found is actually doing two different things.

# This is actually just redirecting all http://example.com/somepage/
# to http://www.example.com/somepage/, to ensure all URLs have the www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]  

The second rewrite is what will help you achieve what you're trying to do.

# This redirect all requests for http://example.com -> http://example.com/newdir
# If you are looking to redirect the request, so the URL contains directory name,
# you can change the [L] to [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^$ /newdir [L]

# If your concerned about direct access to a particular page without the sub-dir 
# you will want to add something like this
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/newdir
RewriteRule (.*) /newdir$1 [R=301,L]

So, in that case, you won't have to be concerned with domain that the application is running on.