{"id":375,"date":"2016-12-31T16:54:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T14:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=375"},"modified":"2016-12-31T16:54:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T14:54:14","slug":"how-to-redirect-root-directory-to-virtual-or-any-other-directory-on-apache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"How to redirect  root directory to virtual or any other directory on Apache"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>The configuration files are at \/etc\/httpd\/conf.d , just add to welcome.conf the directive :<\/h3>\n<p>Use <a href=\"http:\/\/httpd.apache.org\/docs\/2.4\/mod\/mod_alias.html#redirectmatch\">RedirectMatch<\/a> to only redirect the root URL \u201c\/\u201d to another sub-directory or URL, without also redirecting everything else\u2026<\/p>\n<pre><code>RedirectMatch ^\/$ http:\/\/www.example.com\/another\/path<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Since <code>RedirectMatch<\/code> uses a regex match, it can be specific with the \u201c\/\u201d path without matching anything else.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The configuration files are at \/etc\/httpd\/conf.d , just add to welcome.conf the directive : Use RedirectMatch to only redirect the root URL \u201c\/\u201d to another sub-directory or URL, without also redirecting everything else\u2026 RedirectMatch ^\/$ http:\/\/www.example.com\/another\/path Since RedirectMatch uses a regex match, it can be specific with the \u201c\/\u201d path without matching anything else. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centos","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}