: How to redirect a website from a folder to the root folder? I was running a website on a folder (www.example.com/folder). The new version of the website is live and runs on the root folder.

@Caterina187

You can use a 301 redirect in your htaccess which is the most appropriate to denote that something has moved (mostly search engine wise).

Just put a line like this in the drupal .htaccess or even create a separate .htaccess in the folder you user (if you still have it)

redirect 301 /your_folder www.yourdomain.com/

What I usually do with drupal is have it in a subfolder and when I am ready to move it to the main domain I just create an .htaccess file in the root directory with rewriting and never move the actual files. I have found that this is more convenient especially when wanting to change the main domain content fast (say restore from a backup, without messing with existing files, create a new dir and change .htaccess to point to that).

my .htaccess looks like:

Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

# Redirect all user to WWW
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.%{HTTP_HOST}/ [R=301,L]

# Serve Drupal 7 from sub directory in web root
RewriteRule ^$ my_folder/index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/my_folder%{REQUEST_URI} -f
RewriteRule .* my_folder/[CO] [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* my_folder/index.php?q=[CO] [QSA]

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@Samaraweera270

If you use Apache you could use ModRewrite. Just put this in your .htaccess file in your root directory:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?folder/(.*)$ [NE,R]

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