.htaccess, redirect to subfolder when no url segment

Question

I've developed a CI website, and hosted on server root directory, I also created some static html page and put them in website directory. (See below)

public_html
     /application
     /other ci folder
     /index.php
     /.htaccess
     /website // in this directory i have my static html website

So when i enter www.myweb.com i can access my CI application, CI application have 2 main routes.

www.myweb.com for front end
www.myweb.com/admin backend

and right now I'm able to access static html site using www.myweb.com/website

what i want is:

When i enter

www.myweb.com it should show static html website

www.myweb.com/app it should show front end of ci website

www.myweb.com/admin it should work as it is working now

what i've tried is:

I searched on google/stack overflow and found some .htaccess solutions,

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
     RewriteEngine On

     RewriteBase /
     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?myweb\.com$ [NC]
     RewriteRule !^website/ /website%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NC]
     #above line works good and show website from website folder

     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?myweb\.com$ [NC]
     RewriteRule (.*)/ %{REQUEST_URI} [L,NC]
     #when i add these two line website shows 500 internal server error

     #Other CI htaccess code to remove index.php
</IfModule>

Can you suggest me solutions. thanks

Answer 1

I found a solution to my question, I want to share it will all

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    # If the requested URI is empty...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^$

    # ...then redirect to the "website" folder
    ^/?$ /website/ [L] //or[L,R] if you want to redirect

    # Otherwise rewrite the base
    RewriteBase /

    # If the request is not a folder or a file, redirects to index.php
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

I merged my assets with codeigniter assets (Corrected few paths of css and js) so it worked for me.

Hope it will work for someone.

Took help from this post: .htaccess - When there is no requested URI