I understand (enough to copy in the right commands at least) how to implement a http://skybyes.com to http://www.skybyes.com redirect. However I'm trying to kick my wife's website live. The site is http://www.skybyes.com/zen_cart and I'm having trouble figuring out how to redirect just www.skybyes.com to www.skybyes.com/zen_cart without killing any other non zen_cart URL's.

I've done a pile of googling and can find a lot of stuff for adding/removing www's and moving domain names, but nothing for redirecting the root domain to a subdomain. Can get anybody who helps a 30% off discount on her site. ;-)

Devin

Your terminology is confusing. Where is the subdomain? Is "zen_cart" just a subdirectory under the domain, or is there a real subdomain or add-on domain involved?

Assuming you have only www.skybyes.com, are you saying that you want URLs without any path or file to go to zen_cart/, and everything else be left alone? That should be easy enough. I think this should work:

I don't think you want a 301 (permanent) redirection, as Google et al. will stop listing www.skybyes.com and list only www.skybyes.com/zen_cart/. If you do want that, add [R=301] at the end of the RewriteRule.

By the way, you may want to consider changing 'zen_cart' to 'store' or 'shop' before you go live -- it looks more professional that way.

Helps if you don't edit 2 different .httaccess files apparently.  Edits in the root .httaccess and the one under the skybyes folder were throwing me off.


Seems to be doing the trick. Hides the zen_cart (at least initially until you start rooting through the store), forces the www. May fiddle around and completely cloak the zen_cart in the URL for the whole site now that I have a clue on setting up the mod_rewrite rules.