www.domain.com/directory => www.directory.com

[Ruben]

Is this possible if 'www.directory.com' domain name is pointing to the www.domain.com servers?

www.domain.com/directory => www.directory.com

[richardk]

You need DNS for the domain, and it needs to point to domain.com's document root.

Then in a .htaccess file in domain.com's document root:

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?(directory)\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /%2/$1 [QSA,L]

If "directory" changes, replace it with "[-a-z]+".

[DecisionsIN]

Hi! New to this forum. Great service and information.

I am trying to do something similar on my site but something is not working right. I am trying to make the folder "www.domain.com/folder" show up as www.domain.com. The code I tried using WAS as follows:

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#RewriteEngine On

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$ [NC]
#RewriteRule !^folder(/.*)?$ /folder%{REQUEST_URI} [QSA,L]


This worked, but the pathing was off. Everything that is stored in the /folder directory rendered fine. But I also have files in the root that need to load, such as scripts and some images. Poor design I know.

I am wondering if there is code to do the following:

1) I need www.domain.com/folderto show up www.domain.com in the browser.

2) I need all the folders and files in the root (e.g. domain.com/album, domain.com/_scripts, etc.) to still load correctly.

3) I'd also like to force non-www to be www.

Any assistance you can provide will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[richardk]

This should do it

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

# Force www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(decisionsin\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?decisionsin\.com$ [NC]
# Ignore real files (in your document root).
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
# Ignore real directories (in your document root).
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /inspace/$1 [QSA,L]

[DecisionsIN]

This should do it

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

# Force www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(domain\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$ [NC]
# Ignore real files (in your document root).
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
# Ignore real directories (in your document root).
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /folder/$1 [QSA,L]

Wow, thanks for the amazingly quick reply. Here is the result:

The redirect from non-www to www seemed to worked correctly, but the rest didn't produce the desired result. Here is what happened:

- When I loaded www.domain.com the splash loaded correctly. The splash page is www.domain.com/index.jsp. I no longer want to use this splash page, which is why I want to load the content in /folder.

- When I go to www.domain.com/folder I get the following error:

404 Not Found
/folder/folder/ was not found on this server.

- I would prefer that www.domain.com load www.domain.com/folder, but for page rank and esthetic reasons I'd like to have the URL in the browser display as www.domain.com.

Thanks again for your help and quick response!

[richardk]

Ah, replace ".*" in the last rule, with ".+".

[DecisionsIN]

Ah, replace ".*" in the last rule, with ".+".

Thanks again for the quick reponse. Unfortunately, seems to be the same result. To make this easier I went ahead and left the code in the .htaccess file. The site is down but at least this way you can see what is going on. Check out http://www.domain.com and http://www.domain.com/folder. I can't leave the site down for too long, so if the site happens to work then I removed the code.

Here is the code I used:

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# Force www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(domain\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$ [NC]
# Ignore real files (in your document root).
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
# Ignore real directories (in your document root).
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /folder/$1 [QSA,L]

[DecisionsIN]

Ah, replace ".*" in the last rule, with ".+".

Thanks again for the quick reponse. Unfortunately, seems to be the same result. To make this easier I went ahead and left the code in the .htaccess file. The site is down but at least this way you can see what is going on. Check out http://www.domain.com and http://www.domain.com/folder. I can't leave the site down for too long, so if the site happens to work then I removed the code.

Here is the code I used:

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# Force www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(domain\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$ [NC]
# Ignore real files (in your document root).
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
# Ignore real directories (in your document root).
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /folder/$1 [QSA,L]

I had to go revert back, so the site is working again. I was experiencing the same problems I outlined in my initial response.

[DecisionsIN]

Okay, I almost got this working my using the following code:

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

# Force www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(domain\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$ [NC]
# Ignore real files (in your document root).
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule !^folder(/.*)?$ /folder%{REQUEST_URI} [QSA,L]

As you can see I removed the following line:

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# Ignore real directories (in your document root).
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d

I'm not sure why this worked.

I only have a few issues left so solve.

- First, if you click on any link, such as "Home" you are taken to http://www.domain.com/folder/, not http://www.domain.com/. Do you know if there is any way to prevent /folder from being displayed in the browser when clicking links?

- On a similar note, if I type in http://www.domain.com/folder/ it still displays as such in the browser. Is there a way to make it show up as http://www.domain.com/ in the browser?

- Lastly, our forum link is no longer working. The link to our forum is, http://www.domain.com/forum. Is there a way to exclude/include certain directories in the root so they continue to work?

Sorry for the long winded response. Thank you again.

[richardk]

Try

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule ^folder(/(.*))?$ http://www.domain.com/$2 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(domain\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /folder/$1 [QSA,L]