Apache redirecting

gimme5minutes

Im about to launch a drupal site and I have a question about redirecting. My homepage is at www.my-site.com/drupal/index.php, however I want people to be able to access this page by just typing www.my-site.com. So basically I want www.my-site.com to point to www.my-site.com/drupal/index.php. Can this be done by apache and if so how?

louie

using the .htaccess file - Google is your friend

gimme5minutes

I have googled and I didn't find a clear easy to understand answer, that's why am I asking here. Often it's quicker to get an answer on a forum than to spend a couple of hours searching google, which I already have done anyway.

From what I've read there are multiple ways to do redirect, through html, php, apache, c, perl.....I want to know which is the best way, which is the standard way it is done. I would have presumed if apache redirected the request straight away it would be more efficient than if it send the request to a html or php that then redirected it.

If apache is the best way to do it, could you tell me what is the command I need to use?

louie

try this in your htaccess file

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /drupal/

# some other rules below

have a look at this

http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/10/06/redirect-subdirectory-to-root-via-htaccess/

DeadParrot

Might you just be able to change the the baseurl in the settings.php file and move all your files?

pauldiv

Move Drupal to root driectory:

http://drupal.org/node/423712