The main’ domain on the hosting account uses the public_html folder for all of its website files. In order to also set up your main domain to use a subfolder on your hosting account you will need to set up a redirect in the .htaccess file in the public_html folder so that the server knows that any request for your main domain will be redirected to a subfolder on public_html.’
Visitors to your website will not be able to tell that your main domain is using a subfolder, they will still see the website address as http://www.yourdomain.com/page.html’
# Copy and paste the following code into the .htaccess file’
# in the public_html folder of your hosting account’
# make the changes to the file according to the instructions.’
# Do not change this line -
RewriteEngine on’
# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain.’
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?yourmaindomain.com$’
# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain.’
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subfolder/’
# Don't change this line.’
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f’
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d’
# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain.’
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subfolder/$1’
# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain again.’
# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain’
# followed by / then the main file for your site, index.php, index.html, etc.’
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?yourmaindomain.com$’
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ subfolder/index.php [L]
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