How to redirect homepage to subfolder without changing URL (still keep www.example.com)

Question

My current .htaccess is in httpdocs. How can I configure it to help domain point to subfolder is /vn/

and still keep: www.example.com instead of www.example.com/vn/

Answer 1

In .htaccess add these lines :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule !^blog/ /blog%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Or in some hosts :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?YourDomainName.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ blog [L]

Answer 2

Try the following near the top of your .htaccess file in the document root:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) /vn/$1 [L]

This internally rewrites all requests that hit the document root to the /vn/ subdirectory. The RewriteCond directive that checks against the REDIRECT_STATUS environment variable ensures the request is only rewritten once - thus avoiding a rewrite loop.