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Hosting Primary Domain in Subfolder

    Primary Domain in Subfolder

    How to host a Primary Domain from a Subfolder via (.htaccess)

    Modifying the .htaccess

    The following code will need to be added to the .htaccess file in the public_html folder of your hosting account. You will need to insert the following code block and make modifications as noted in the (#) comments.

    You will need to change the two instances of example.com to your domain, and the three instances of subdirectory to the folder where you want your site.

    # BlueHost.com
    # .htaccess main domain to subdirectory redirect
    # Do not change this line.
    RewriteEngine on
    # Change example.com to be your main domain.
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com$
    # Change 'subdirectory' to be the directory you will use for your main domain.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdirectory/
    # Don't change the following two lines.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    # Change 'subdirectory' to be the directory you will use for your main domain.
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdirectory/$1
    # Change example.com to be your main domain again.
    # Change 'subdirectory' to be the directory you will use for your main domain
    # followed by / then the main file for your site, index.php, index.html, etc.

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com$
    RewriteRule ^(/)?$ subdirectory/index.html [L]

    Visitors to your Web site will not be able to tell that your main domain is using a sub directory, they will still see the Web site address as http://www.example.com/page.html (www.example.com).

    Please note that this will not work with some website software. You may also need to modify the $base_url, $live_site or other configuration settings to finish the process.

    Thank you : https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/347#vote

    Primary Domain Subfolder

    If you have lost .htaccess file

    just create a file in your file manager and name it .htaccess 🙂

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