.htaccess redirect

Question

i want to create a clean url, as in, let say, i have a site www.mywebsite.com, i want, if anybody tries http://www.mywebsite.com/something, he should get redirected to www.mywebsite.com,

so any thing that is typed ahead of mywebsite.com/ they should get redirected to www.mywebsite.com

how can i do this in .htaccess, kindly help.

Answer 1

If you want to only redirect if there files and directories don't exists already, then this will work:

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/.+ / [R,L]

If you never want to have sub-content accessible then remove the condition rules

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^/.+ / [R,L]

Answer 2

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^/.+ / [L,R]

That will redirect everything to / as a permanent redirect. Look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html for more information on the flags you can add for transparency etc etc.

If you want this in .htaccess make sure you have the correct override directives in your <VirtualHost > config.