Hello,

I want to do the following:
when someone enter my domain to redirect it to dummy url.

for example when enter -www.example.net or -www.example.com (I have net & com)

to change the url to -www.example.net/online/

online folder doesn't exist

How to do it in mod rewrite ??

thank you

Why not using the domain's root level in the first place ?

It's not very good to, IMHO, use a sub directory when the above level is free to use.
Even if you plan to later add something in the domain's root level, you should start right now, even with few pages to start building PageRank on the domain's root level.

Now, about redirecting the .net to the .com, and assuming both share the same dns and vhost settings (eg they lead to the same place), just use the www prefix redirection (method n°2), it will additionaly make sure you use the www prefix.

If you really want to redirect the root level to the online/ dir, you can use something like :

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /online/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

after the www prefix redirection.

Thank you for the reply

but it didn't work...

I will explain myself. I need online directory for google adsense optimization, I will use a better word, so the relevant ads will be more efficient.

online directory is fake one, it's not exist..

I want to do something like this:

when enter -www.example.net it will show -www.example.net/online/ instead.

and when entering:
-www.example.net/index.php?id=4

it will show: -www.example.net/online/index.php?id=4

it just to add the fake online

thank you

It does not really matter if the dir is virtual mod_rewrite wise, but again, I'm wondering about the positive effect of such technique, think of this this way :
will all your site be focused on the "online" keyword ?
wouldn't it be more reasonable to use it on really related page and then use other keywords for other pages ?

Page titles and meta tags are important too for AdSense, but I don't think repetition is the wisest in the matter, relevancy is better.

because my website is not in english, so any word I can add , will be very vital. and the best place is the website URL then the title... I handled the title but trying now to do a change in my URL format and to include a word or two which can help me. (it helpful because I notice a new adsense ads which relevant to the word I choose).


But I still trying to figure it.

it seems your suggestion has a lack.

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /online/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]

when I tried :www.example.net/index.php?id=4 it didn't forward to
-www.example.net/online/index.php?id=4

and the same for the main URL -www.example.net (I want it to redirect to -www.example.net/online/)


BTW I succeeded to do the following:
example.net , example.com and -www.example.com redirected to :
-www.example.net/online/

I used this code:

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\.example\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.net/online/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^online/(.*) /$1

and all the sub urls became relative to online/ which is perfect to me


but still -www.example.net

what about :

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\.example\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.net/online/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /online/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^online/(.*) /$1 [QSA,L,NC]

This is a great example below, but it only works for me if they enter example.com/..... and not if they come with -http://www.example.com/......

Any suggestions?

SeO wrote:what about :

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\.example\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.net/online/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /online/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^online/(.*) /$1 [QSA,L,NC]

I've tried the following below in addition to the example above, but I still can't handle the www redirect for topics. Am I on the right path?

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)www\.example\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.net/online/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /online/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^online/(.*) /$1 [QSA,L,NC]

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.net/online/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(?!online)(.*)/?$ /online/$2 [QSA,L,R=301]

?

I'm moving our forum from the root to a subdirectory /forum/ .

At the root is going to be a CMS program for articles, news, etc. So I don't want everything to redirect including the index, just the forums and topics.

www.example.net/viewtopic# to -http://www.example.net/forum/viewtopic#

OR
example.net/viewtopic# to example.net/forum/viewtopic#

-http://www.example.net/viewforum# to -http://www.example.net/forum/viewforum#

OR
example.net/viewforum# to example.net/forum/viewforum#

The code below works for non-www redirects, but not those with www links. I wanted to have everything redirect before we go live with the change.

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\.example\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.net/online/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /online/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^online/(.*) /$1 [QSA,L,NC]

Nevermind, we went live anyways...but thanks for the previous help.