[SOLVED] Redirect root of website

[alexwest]

Hi all,

 

Need some help setting up redirect rules for a specific configuration.

 

I have two websites under the same apache server, domain1.com in the root directory and domain2.com in root/domain2 as an add-on domain. The first website has three language versions each one in its own directory root/lang1, root/lang2, etc. and there are no files in the root directory for domain1.com. What I would like is to have a rule that redirects an access to www.domain1.com to www.domain1.com/lang1.

 

I have tried to set this up with simple 'Redirect' rules but the problem is that a redirect of the root directory affects both domains, ie both www.domain1.com and www.domain2.com are redirected to www.domain1.com/lang1.

 

Can anyone suggest how to set this up through .htaccess so I can get domain1.com to go to domain1.com/lang1 and keep domain2.com at domain2.com.

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

Cheers,

Alex

 

[alexwest]

Solved this problem using another solution than mod_rewrite but thought to post it here anyway for reference.

 

I placed an index file index.php in the root directory that redirects the traffic coming in through the main domain to the desired sub-directory. This did not affect traffic coming to the add-on domain, solving my previous problem.

 

These are the contents of the index file:

<?php

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");

header("Location: ./lang1/");

exit;

?>