Apache redirect subdomain to a specific folder

Question

I need to redirect all the traffic from

http://subdomain.domain.com/

to

http://subdomain.domain.com/folder/

With 'folder' being a specific folder, of course. I've tried this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain\.domain\.com$
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://subdomain.domain.com/folder/ [L]

But it doesn't work. What's wrong?

Answer 1

Try this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain\.domain\.com$
RewriteRule ^/$ http://subdomain.domain.com/folder/ [R,L]

The only change I made was to add R in the options after the RewriteRule. That option tells Apache to do a 302 redirect. You can use R=301 if you want a permanent redirect.