Wildcard redirect links going to root to subfolder on same domain

Question

I have moved a website from www.example.com to www.example.com/subfolder and using an .htaccess file, I would like to redirect old links going to www.example.com to www.example.com/subfolder. My current .htaccess looks like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subfolder/$1 [L]

I've also tried the following:

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subfolder/
#RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.example.com/subfolder%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,QSA,L]

I keep getting redirect loops or the redirect not working and leading to an error 404.

Answer 1

are you using wordpress? Or you just moving in general?

If you are moving in general this one-liner will work

RedirectMatch ^/$ /subfolder/

Original answer from here

This is another solution i'm using currently.

Do not copy and paste . You need to Replace DOMAIN (without the .com) and SUBFOLDER to the name u want.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subfolder/

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.

# Rewrite all those to insert /folder
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subfolder/$1 [L]

Answer 2

You can use this rule in site root .htaccess (parent directory of subfolder ) as the first rule :

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(?!subfolder/)(.*)$ /subfolder/$1 [L,NC,NE,R=301]

# remaining rules go here

Make sure to clear your browser cache completely when testing this change.