Serving index.html from a subdirectory

Question

In my document root, I have to directories: home and foobar, both with their own index.html files.

How can I set it up so that when someone visits my site at example.com, they see the contents on home/index.html?

I tried using an index.php with a redirect in document root, as well as a .htaccess redirect, but both of them change the URL in the browser to example.com/home/, which I would like to ideally avoid.

Answer 1

Why don't you just move the contents of home up one directory?

Answer 2

What about the simplest solution: Creating a simple PHP file that includes the document?

<?php
   include("html/index.html");
?>

Answer 3

Here are two solutions to your problem.

1. Using virtual hosts

You probably have a VirtualHost that points to your website. Edit it this way:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /path/to/your/directory/home # add /home at the end
    ServerName example.com
    <Directory /path/to/your/directory>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Then don't forget to restart apache2 (or httpd)

2. Using .htaccess

Add this in your .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/home
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ home/$1

Note that /foobar will be completely impossible to reach exept by an include from your /home directory.