.htaccess rewrite ?

[waytech2003]

I have websites on a server that I do not have control of the Apache files. I believe this hosting is referred to as Shared Hosting. I do have the ability to edit the .htaccess file. I have 3 domain names pointing to this site. The site is maintained by Frontpage 2000, so I believe Frontpage edits something in .htaccess too.

I am restructuring the website by taking everything out of the root directory and moving into several subs. I want to somehow keep the site going if someone tries to get here using an old link.

Example: typing

http://www.foo.org

takes you to the

http://www.foo.org/index.htm

page. This page will now be moved to

http://www.foo.org/YYYY/index.htm

I need to insert /YYYY/ into any

http://www.foo.org

URL that does not contain it.

To make it even harder I want the other domain names go to to their own subs.
Ex:

http://www.abc.org/index.htm

will be

http://www.abc.org/AAA/index.htm,

http://www.xyz.org/index.htm

will be

http://www.xyz.org/AAA/index.htm

Can this be done by .htaccess?

 

[feherke]

Hi

Theoretically yes, practically some kind of settings may be restricted. Your host knows the truth.

See the [tt]Redirect[/tt] directive from mod_alias :

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#redirect

Or the whole mod_rewrite module :

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[waytech2003]

Thank you, I will look into this.

I have never worked with .htaccess before so I might be back to get more specific examples to test out.