Redirect domain to subfolder

Last night I was looking for a way to redirect a domain (example.com) to example.com/folder but without actually redirecting the user to that folder.

So I thought that the best way to go about is actually treading every request as example.com/folder.

Anyway enough said here is the result.

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# Redirect to a different folder
# of the current domain that was requested
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /folder/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Place the above in a .htaccess file in the root of your webserver.

Pretty need isn’t it? It only took 4 lines.