Need help with a Redirect

Ok so I have a page

myiancome.com which I want to redirect to myiancome.com/start

I used a 301 redirect for the domain BUT there are actions that happen on myiancome.com

For example someone signs up via http://www.myiancome.com/index.php?req=newaccount
when a users completes it sends them to a confirmation page that looks like
myiancome.com/signupprocesscompletesomethinghere

with the 301 redirect it till redirect that link because it is not technically pointing to a sub directory.

so then I tried to redirect on index.php specifically but then since index.php is a php file there are other actions that happen on index.php?req=newacct for example, which will redirect that because of index.php

what I want is to redirect myiancome.com -> myiancome.com/start , without interrupting any other dynamic or php actions on myiancome

thanks look for your help

 

i think you should be adding a line of code the your .htaccess page. I have to admit I'm not totally up on this but I used .htaccess to redirect from one website to another.

Try a google search, I found what I was looking for quite easily.

Tim

 

Do you want to install the site in a subfolder without affecting the URLs of the pages? If this is what you want please confirm and I'll give you the code for .htaccess.

 

yes I do not want to affect myiancome.com urls

please let me know!

 

Here's the .htaccess code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?myiancome.com 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /start/$1 [L]

Code (markup):

 

awesome boss - I will give this a try

thanks!!!

 

ahhh boss - it almost worked.

http://www.myiancome.com/index.php?req=newaccount

will redirect to myiancome

the issue is myiancome should redirect to the blog myiancome.com/start because I do not want them to see myiancome.com the regular sign up and login page, so I did a 301 permanent redirect

but when someone signup it gets redirected to myiancome.com/?information here, and when that happens it redirect (301) to /start and gives n error because that page does not exist.

so I want it to keep have myiancome.com go to /start when someone types in myiancome.com but do not want any other aspects of the myaincome to be messed up

it was my fault - because I didnt think about the affilaite system and the blog all together, I would have the blog then the affiliate system, but I messed up and I have too many affilaites to change the directories now trying to find an alternative

 

So you want only the homepage (http://www.myiancome.com) to be redirested to the blog (/start), not any of the other pages, right?
Try to add this before the RewriteRule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^/?$

Code (markup):

 

thanks zeegal - sorry it didnt work

this is what I have in the htaccess

going to myiancome.com still gets the default layout which I do not want

the htaccess is uploaded didnt do anything

also if you sign up the main domain gets a wierd confirmation url looks like its via php for example myiancome.com/?datesignupherenamehereusernamehere

which goes to a different page for confirmation - which I do not want to disturb either - but not sure if that is a page, but it goes to a confirmation page - (did I make sense)? sorry