A very simple solution may be to set DocumentRoot to:
/home/mywebsite/www
then you don't need a redirect or anything.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod...l#documentroot
You can't do this in the .htaccess file, you would have to do it in the server configuration or virtual host files. Your hosting provider could do that for you.
Another option would be to simply link down to the subdirectories from the www, using the commands like so: