[buijon]

Ok I tried to read some of the tutorials in the top post but none of it makes sense to me and I have until midnight to get this sorted out. Heres my situation

I want to redirect my website to one of its subdirectories while masking the address bar to show simplified urls. For example, my site is set up like this

www.mywebsite.com/www/index.html

But I want people to only need to type in

www.mywebsite.com

and have it redirect to the sub directory while still only displaying www.mywebsite.com in the address bar. I also would like to be able to have it do that with the subdirectories for the different sections..so

www.mywebsite.com/www/sol/index.html

would be accessible and displayed as

www.mywebsite.com/sol

Is this possible? My hosting provider does not allow masking, and told me to look up mod_rewrite with .htaccess to mask it. But that means very little to me. I could use some major help on this so I can launch my site for the New Year.

Thank you so much!

[wirehopper]

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:

Code:

cd /home/mywebsite/www
ln -s www/sol