Apache Virtual Host redirect to document root directory

Question

I have successfully set the DocumentRoot for a given server names:

<VirtualHost *:80>
 DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/domain1"
 ServerName www.domain1.com
 ServerAlias *.domain1.com
#Other directives here
</VirtualHost>

I can't seem to figure out, how to move the subfolders ie."www.domain1.com/contact-us" so it presents index.html located in "/var/www/html/domain1".

I tried adding the alias for the /contact-us in the VirtualHost instructions:

<VirtualHost *:80>
     DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/domain1"
     ServerName www.domain1.com
     ServerAlias *.domain1.com
    #Other directives here
     Alias /contact-us /var/www/html/domain1
    </VirtualHost>

It doesn't work as expected.

I am thinking doing this via .htaccess in the subfolder for the domain1. How would I go around redirecting everything after the domain name to the index.html?

can you be more precise with what you're expecting? you want the folder contact-us under domain.com/index.html? — Diogo Jesus
@DiogoJesus Sure. The end goal is to redirect every subdirectory to the main index.html in the DocumentRoot set up via the virtual host ("/var/www/html/domain1"). So www.domain1.com/about-us would point out to "/var/www/html/domain1/index.html, and the rest of 11 sub directories as well. — sredwopclub

Diogo Jesus Diogo Jesus · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-06T13:18:04

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^subdirectory/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^about-us/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^contact/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^subfolder/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L]

Test out this code, make sure the change the folder names.

EDIT

This must be in your .htaccess in your web directory root folder.

Apache Virtual Host redirect to document root directory

1 Answers

EDIT