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apache.htaccessserversubdomain

Server redirection

We wanna make a redirection from root domain to a subfolder

We already tried: '''

 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$ [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$
  RewriteRule (.*)$ https://example.com/folder1/subfolder/$1 [R=301,L]

''' The redirection works, but internal files also prepend the folder structure so web page doesn´t work as expected.

Thank you very much in advance

Solution

  • Your issue is that those rules also get applied to requested URLs that already contain the rewritten folder structure. So you need to add an exception for those cases:

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/folder1/subfolder/
RewriteRule (.*)$ https://example.com/folder1/subfolder/$1 [R=301,END]

    Such rules should get implemented in the actual http server's host configuration if possible. When using a distributed configuration file instead (".htaccess") you need to accept a performance penalty...