How to redirect my .com/blog to my server folder /blog ?

[AymanH]

Hello SEO Moz !

Always hard to post something serious for the 04.01 but anyway let's try !

I'm releasing Joomla websites website.com, website.com/fr, website.com/es and so on.

Usually i have the following folders on my server

1. [ROOT]/com
2. [ROOT]/com/fr
3. [ROOT]/com/es

However I would like to get the following now (for back up and security purpose).

1. [ROOT]/com
2. [ROOT]/es
3. [ROOT]/fr

So now what can I do (I gues .htaccess) to open the folder [ROOT]/es when people clic on website.com/es ?

It sounds stupid but I really don't know.

I found this on internet but did not answer my needs.

.htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(^/fr/.) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.)$ /sites/fr/$1 [L,R=301]

Tks a lot !

Florian

[danrawk]

somewhere on your root folder you will have a .htaccess file

.htaccess is a small server file that you can put conditions in. some conditions will redirect to a "new"  location (your new folders) when the .htaccess detects a url to an "old" location. this is commonly called "mod rewrite".

the software used to issue these commands varies based on your web site host. contact them and ask them what rewrite/redirection software is on your account (for example, one common one is  ISAPI rewrite:

http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/

[AymanH]

Hello !

Tks you for your help ! I contacted them and now waiting for their answer.

Let see what we can do

Tks a lot

[Christy-Correll]

Hi Flo - Were you able to resolve this issue?

[AymanH]

Nop I just put all of them in the same folder but I would like to change it