Last updated on September 21st, 2021 at 10:42 am
Sometimes you may need to redirect to subfolder when you move your website’s root folder contents to a new subdirectory. You can easily redirect to subdirectory using .htaccess file in Apache web server. Here’s how to redirect to subfolder using .htaccess file.
How To Redirect To Subfolder Using .htaccess
Here’s how to redirect all traffic to a subfolder using .htaccess file. Please ensure that you have enabled mod_rewrite in your Apache server before you follow these steps. Only then your .htaccess configuration will be applied by your server. After you redirect to subdirectory, you may want to use a charting tool to monitor the key metrics about your website/application such as signups, purchases, etc. using dashboards & charts to ensure that everything is working as before, and spot issues early.
1. Open .htaccess file
You will typically find .htaccess file in your site’s root folder (e.g /var/www/html/). You can open it using vi editor
$ sudo vim /var/www/html/.htaccess
2. Redirect to Subfolder
There are multiple ways to redirect to subfolder (e.g /product). We will look at each of them. You can use any of them as per your requirement.
Using RewriteRule
Add the following lines to your .htaccess file.
RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^$ /product [L]
The above lines will redirect all requests sent to the root, to the /product subfolder.
Similarly, you can also redirect HTTP to HTTPS using .htaccess.
Using RedirectMatch
If you only want to redirect root and not other URLs to a subfolder, you can use RedirectMatch
RedirectMatch ^/$ /product/
Using RewriteCond
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^$ product [L]
The above rules work for both www.example.com as well as just example.com. Similarly, you can redirect from subfolder to subdomain in Apache.
3. Restart Apache Server
Restart Apache Server to apply changes
$ sudo service apache2 restart
That’s it! Now your website will automatically redirect all requests to example.com/product subfolder.
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Sreeram Sreenivasan is the Founder of Ubiq. He has helped many Fortune 500 companies in the areas of BI & software development.