rewrite .htaccess

[pedroz]

Hello all,

I have the following scenario...
domain.com with .htaccess file in root and 2 folders:
/.htaccess
/portal/
/support/

1. I would like to type www.domain.com
   and open directly www.domain.com/portal/

RewriteRule ^/$ /portal/ [R]
not working, does anyone know why?

2. When click the link www.domain.com/portal/support/index.php?a=1
   would like to rewrite to www.domain.com/support/index.php?a=1

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} foo=(.)
RewriteRule ^{/portal/support/index.php?(.}) /support/index.php?%1
not working...

~note
i am getting this error:
[Wed Dec 30 01:37:31 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: C:/www/~domain/.htaccess

<VirtualHost *:80>
(...)
<Directory "C:/www/~domain/">

AllowOverride All
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

may be it is too late now, but i'm blocked with this...

thank you!

[jay6390]

why not just have an index.php file with this in it

<?php
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == '/']) {
    header('Location: /portal/');
    die();
}

That will redirect from the index.php file to the portal if the URI is /
If you have other code in an index.php file in that directory already, it won't be affected

[jay6390]

Also forgot to mention that your rewrite rule should be something like

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/$ /portal/ [R=301,L]

You should post the whole content of the htaccess file to check that it is all correct, as something else may be causing the issue

[bradgrafelman]

Try adding a question mark after the slash (thus making it optional) in the first part of that rule, so that it reads ^/?$ instead.