main Domain to subdomain

[BrasilianGuy]

I have a app hoted on a rails server

my application - lwi - is under the rails folder and in the public_html I have lwi folder as well.

the only way to access my app right now is through

http://lwi.lwiclean.com/home

but I want my link to be

http://www.lwiclean.com

I assume that i have to do a redirect from

http://www.lwiclean.com

=>

http://lwi.lwiclean.com/home

I have .htaccess in the public_html and in the lwi folder

How do I make my url and redirect to be

http://www.lwiclean.com??

thanks

Ps.: here is the tutorial the hosting company gave me....

http://helpdesk.hostmonster.com/kb/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&id=308

I could not get it to work

 

[elgrandeperro]

Easier, just metarefresh index.html (or whatever the default index file is):

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=

http://www.lwiclean.com/home">;

Read:

http://www.west-wind.com/wiki/wc.dll?wc~MetaRefresh

 

[BrasilianGuy]

I still have to make to

http://www.lwiclean.com

right??

That is my problem....

http://www.lwiclean.com

ain't working

 

[elgrandeperro]

According to the docs, /public_html is the doc root,
so edit /public_html/index.html.

/home would be /public_html/home

eugene

 

[BrasilianGuy]

It works but check out what is happening with the url

http://www.lwiclean.com

finds the index.html file with the metarefresh then metarerhesh goes to

http://www.lwiclean.com/home

but if we click on the links it shows

http://www.lwiclean.com/lwi/home

here is my mod_rewrite

# Hostmonster.com
# .htaccess main domain to subfolder redirect
# Copy and paste the following code into the .htaccess file
# in the public_html folder of your hosting account
# make the changes to the file according to the instructions.

# Do not change this line.

RewriteEngine on

# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(

http://www.)?lwiclean.com$

# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/lwi/

# Don't change this line.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain.

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /lwi/$1

# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain again.
# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain
# followed by / then the main file for your site, index.php, index.html, etc.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(

http://www.)?lwiclean.com$

RewriteRule ^(/)?$ lwi/index [L]

 

[BrasilianGuy]

Ok...

I feixed the redirection... it was a route problem

My htaccess looks like this

# Hostmonster.com
# .htaccess main domain to subfolder redirect
# Copy and paste the following code into the .htaccess file
# in the public_html folder of your hosting account
# make the changes to the file according to the instructions.


# Do not change this line.

RewriteEngine on


# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(

http://www.)?lwiclean.com$

# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/lwi/

# Don't change this line.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain.

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /lwi/$1

# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain again.
# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain
# followed by / then the main file for your site, index.php, index.html, etc.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(

http://www.)?lwiclean.com$

RewriteRule ^(/)?$ lwi/home [L]


the only thing now is that the url shows lwi

if you guys want to check it out...

http://www.lwiclean.com