How can I perform this 301 redirect?

[GrassRootsSEO]

I am working on a site for a colleague and have installed wordpress on their server in the wp directory, they want the root domain redirecting to the wp directory but everything i have tried seems to throw up errors.

i need sample.co.uk to redirect to sample.co.uk/wp/ no matter which html file they are trying to access on the root of the sample.co.uk site

help?

[Visiblics]

You must have installed the wordpress on some folder rather than the root of  your website.

So if you want to redirect all the traffic form “sample.co.uk” to “sample.co.uk/wp/” then use the following codes on the .htaccess file on the root (sample.co.uk/)

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^$ /wp/ [R=301]</ifmodule>

OR

RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^([/]+)$ wp/$1 [L,R=301]

OR

RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://sample.co.uk/wp

Although I will recommend to use the 1st one.

[JamesFx]

There's a great htaccess file generator at http://www.htaccessredirect.net/

[Webrevolve]

Also, you can install the this word press plugin http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/.

Works very well and has an option in the plugin menu to make redirect changes to your htaccess file for redirecting pages.

The string to add in is:

redirect 301 "/page-name.html"  http://wwwdomain-name.com

[ProjectLabs]

Does this work for both Linux server software and Microsoft server software? Should there already be an .htaccess file or do you usually have to upload it to the server files via FTP?