/* THIS would appear to be a duplicate of another question I had asked 10 days back (.htaccess / redirecting to https://www.example.com and virtual folder access), but (a) I didnt get any responses to the changes I made to the question, and (b) this question here is a more complex version of the above and I believe warrants a new query */
I have a site which has the following entities: example.com/index.html example.com/main.php example.com/SPECIAL/main.php besides the above, I have folders like example.com/images/, /css/, etc which the html generated by the scripts point to.
I need .htaccess magic for ALL of the below:
(a) permanently redirecting users from "example.com" to "www.example.com" (301 stuff)
(b) permanently redirecting users from http://www.example.com to https://www.example.com (301 stuff)
(c) users accessing example.com/ should, of course, see index.html, but if they type
example.com/ABCDEF OR
example.com/ABCDEF/
they should be redirected to example.com/main.php?folder=ABCDEF
EXCEPT when ABCDEF is a real folder (like /SPECIAL/, /images/, /css/, etc)
(d) If user tries to access example.com/REALFOLDER/ (eg /images/), he should just be redirected to example.com/
(e) All of this should not mess with the viewing of example.com/index.html
Sorry if this sounds complex, but thats exactly what I need!
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