: Want to redirect my site all pages to /blog For example my site: www.example.com When anyone visits my site, I want them all to redirect to www.example.com/blog But when I open my site it

@Ogunnowo487

To redirect everyone else, apart from your IP address (eg. 123.123.123.123), to the /blog subdirectory then you can use something like the following in .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog/
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !=123.123.123.123
RewriteRule (.*) /blog/ [R=301,L]


If the requested URI does not start with /blog/ and the IP address is not 123.123.123.123 then redirect to include /blog/ at the start.

The in the RewriteRule substitution is a backreference to the parenthesised pattern (.*) in the RewriteRule pattern (ie. the entire URL less the slash prefix - in htaccess).

Note also that I've removed the ? at the end of the RewriteRule substitution. This specifically removes any query string from the request. Unless that is required, it should be omitted.

I don't see any reason to test against %{HTTP_HOST} (as in your original example). (?)



My initial answer (below) is not what you require, but I'll leave it for completeness.

This version internally rewrites (as opposed to redirecting) all requests to the /blog subdirectory (the URL in the address bar does not change).

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog/
RewriteRule (.*) /blog/ [L]


This basically says... if the requested URI does not start with /blog/ then rewrite to include /blog/ at the start. Note the absence of the R flag on the RewriteRule directive. The R flag would result in an external redirect.

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