[Solstice]

Hi I already have one simple re-route in my .htaccess - it takes requests for the main url and sends it to a specific forum inside my mybb site. This is done like so:

DirectoryIndex forumdisplay.php?fid=6

What I need now is for any requests for site.com/index.php or any other php file and and any requests for any other directory (i.e. site.com/openx/) to also redirect to this same specific forum.

There may be more than one way to do this and I suppose I would be looking for the simplest one.

Any suggestions?

[lobrc]

Try this:

Redirect 301 / /forumdisplay.php?fid=6

[Solstice]

Wow that is simple. Would that work without even specifying any .php files or directories? Or does the slash specify any directory.

I will try it out.

[Solstice]

It didn't work.

When I added that line to .htaccess the site would no longer load and would instead give a generic 'page will not display' page. Same thing happened when I tried it with both that line and my previous line and also with your line only by itself.

Any other suggestions?

[lobrc]

Try using the full domain.

redirect 301 / http://www.yourdomain.com/page.html

That should redirect your whole site to a specific page.

[Solstice]

Thank you for your help again but it didn't work.

The following line by itself gave 'Internal Server Error'

redirect 301 / forumdisplay.php?fid=2

and this line by itself also gave 'Internal Server Error' (apon adding in my site name, of course)

redirect 301 / http://www.mysite.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=2

Let me ask my question again , more specifically.

I think I don't want my entire site redirecting to one page. I'd like any requests for "http://www.mysite.com/index.php" to redirect to forumdisplay.php?fid=2 (while either showing http://www.mysite.com/index.php in the url bar or showing http://www.mysite.com/ in the url bar)

and also any requests for "http://www.mysite.com/*.php" to do the same thing. (where * represents any other php file _by itself_ in the called url)

and also any requests for "http://www.mysite.com/*/" to do the same thing. (where * represents any other directory in the called url)

I think what I'm needing may not be a 301 redirect by the true definition of the term redirect.

Any other suggestions are welcome. Otherwise I will keep trying to figure it out in a net search on .htaccess .

Thank you