Thread: .htaccess problem maybe someone can help?

Ok this is the issue we have a multiple domains and one web host. The main site we will say is abc.com and we have a shopping cart at abc.com/cart/ I need to redirect 123.com to abc.com/cart/index.php. 123.com will be domain for the shopping cart. I know I have to do it using .htaccess, but I have no experience on how to do it. I haven't ever messed with htaccess file before. Right now 123.com is pointing to abc.com/cart/ but I get directory has no index.html file.(Because is suposed to be index.php)

Any help is appreciated, thanks

Robert

Code:

Redirect 301 / http://abc.com/cart/index.php

Be VERY careful when messing around in the htacess file... If you are not comfortable, just use a meta tag

Code:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; url=http://abc.com/cart/index.php">

Read this before editing the htaccess

Code:

http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml

It can be scary, so make 100% you under stand everything on that page.

Thanks apreciate it

Take a back up of your entire site first because I messed with the .htaccess before and it all went tits up, bad day for me I can tell you.

You are better off using meta tags alone. That's better. Because httaccess very sensitive. Do not use httaccess to dabble. More you use a suggestion from "Harmonic"

Do you not have the option to set subdomains in your hosting acount i.e. through cpanel? This would be much easier for you. Usually it is located toward the bottom of your Cpanel, you type in the name of the subdomain you want like ourshop, point it to the directory you want it to have as its home domain.com/store and then people can type in mystore.domain.com to get to it. Some hosts don't allow this but most do, another option is to purchase a unique domain for the store and put it in through cpanel if your host does support multiple domains and point it to the store.

If your host doesn't support subdomains then it may be advantageous to find one that does and move there before getting to big.

Just my two cents worth....

You can easily make redirection from domain control panel or from cpanel. Both option very easy..