How to redirect website to particular file?

Question

There is a domain name. Let's say domain.com .

When the user types domain.com only, he should be redirected to the address domain.com/file.html . How can I do that with a .htaccess file?

Plus, what does RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] mean? Would it help me?

Answer 1

添加到您的.htaccess文件

DirectoryIndex file.html 

Answer 2

Check out this site: .htaccess tricks and tips It's a good reference for rewrite rules.

As for what does RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L] mean. It's going to ignore anything with an index.php ending Rewrite Rule meaning

Answer 3

To redirect you can make a index page (the first page that the user visits)

DirectoryIndex file.html

modifying your .htaccess file according to this link .

For RewriteRule you need to able the mod_rewrite module in apache and then make in your .htaccess file

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule (.*) file.html [L]
</IfModule>

In the RewriteRule you can put regular expressions to identify the url and redirect the user to a file that you want (in this case you would redirect all your links to file.html ). More info here .

Moreover in the configuration file of the apache server by default is possible you have the next configuration:

#
# DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory
# is requested.
#
<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.php4 index.php3 index.cgi index.pl index.html index.htm index.shtml index.phtml
</IfModule>

So, by default if you have a file called index.php in your webroot of your domain.com always that file would be called first.

Answer 4

Try putting the following in your .htaccess file located in the root of domain.com

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#put all the following rules before any other rules in the .htaccess file
RewriteRule ^file\.html$ - [L]

#domain.com or any subdomain 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+)\.domain\.com$ [NC]
#the root of domain   
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/?$ [NC]
#return file.html
RewriteRule . file.html [L]