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Rewriting from a subfolder to the root

  • 23-04-2012 04:09PM
    #1
    corblimey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭


    Man, every time I mess around with the RewriteEngine, I just get more and more confused, no matter how much I read up on it.

    This weekend, I'll be moving my site to a new host, and am going to take the opportunity to make some changes. For the last year or so, for legacy reasons, I've had my actual site in www.domain.com/ver2/, while www.domain.com shows the original. No longer! I'm going to transfer the contents of the /ver2 subfolder on my old host to the root on my new host.

    However, there will still be links out there pointing to /ver2, so I'd like that when they come in, there's a permanent redirect to the root, but everything else is left intact. Filenames, parameters, etc etc, all as is.

    I tried 
    RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /~domain/
RewriteRule ^ver2/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L]
    in a .htaccess in the root of my new host (and I also created a ver2 folder and popped it in there) but if I try 
    http://91.216.241.2/~domain/ver2/test.php?name=michael
    where test.php is a file only in the root, I get 404.

    I was hoping this would do it, and then when I go live this weekend, I'd simply remove the '~domain/' part of the RewriteBase and I'm done, but instead I'm stuck. I know it's something dumb I'm doing, but no amount of Googling is helping me.


Comments

  • #2
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    I'm not a whizz with .htaccess either (I pretty much hit it with a hammer until it works and hope the universe doesn't break it), but I was curious enough to have a play around with it.
    I got a 404 until I removed the forward-slash (marked in red), after which it worked as expected. The .htaccess was only in /~domain/ 
    RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /~domain/
RewriteRule ^ver2/(.*)$ [COLOR="Red"][B]/[/B][/COLOR]$1 [R=301,NC,L]


  • #3
    corblimey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭corblimey


    DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »
    I'm not a whizz with .htaccess either (I pretty much hit it with a hammer until it works and hope the universe doesn't break it), but I was curious enough to have a play around with it.
    I got a 404 until I removed the forward-slash (marked in red), after which it worked as expected. The .htaccess was only in /~domain/

    Hi DonkeyStyle. It was a bit difficult for me to see the red in the code section until I actually started this reply. I finally had it working with 
    RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^ver2/(.*)$ http://ipaddress/~domain/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
    but I prefer your approach. Thanks!


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