Please could I have some help redirecting URLs to a subfolder so that everything in "https://site1.co.uk" is rewritten to "https://site1.co.uk/subfolder"? The .htaccess file needs to be in /subfolder. Many thanks in advance.

CodePudding user response：

Do this

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(. )$ /subfolder/$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

CodePudding user response：

You could do something like the following in the root .htaccess file to rewrite all direct requests to the subfolder.

RewriteEngine On

# Rewrite all direct requests to the `/subfolder` directory
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule ^ subfolder%{REQUEST_URI} [L]

The check against the REDIRECT_STATUS environment variable ensures that only direct requests from the client (as opposed to internally rewritten requests) are rewritten to the /subfolder directory (thus avoiding a rewrite loop).

This also means that a direct request for /subfolder itself will also be rewritten to the /subfolder directory (ie. /subfolder/subfolder) - so you can have a sub-subfolder of the same name if you wish (otherwise direct requests for /subfolder will result in a 404). That is, unless you have an additional .htaccess file in the subfolder that also contains mod_rewrite directives, in which case these directives will be overridden.

UPDATE:

The .htaccess file needs to be in /subfolder.

In that case, this is not possible. The .htaccess file that rewrites requests to the /subfolder must be in the document root (the parent directory).

If the .htaccess file is in the /subfolder itself then it will simply never be processed for requests outside of that subfolder in order to rewrite the request.