Redirect visitor from images folder to root directory

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    When a user manually navigates to a certain folder on a website (e.g. 'images'), how do you redirect them to the root directory?
     
    JT12, Aug 1, 2012 IP
  2. Thorlax402

    Thorlax402 Member

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    The best way to do this would be to add a .htaccess file to the directory you want people to be rerouted from. In this file, you will want something along the lines of:

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^.*$ /
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    This is basically telling the browser to redirect any attempt at accessing the current directory to the root directory.
     
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    Right now I am getting the index content, with no styles. It isn't actually redirecting right now.

    I didn't want to be testing in my root directory, so I am testing in a sub-folder with it's own index.

    Example: website.com/website_test/index.php/images.

    Is this throwing something off?
     
    JT12, Aug 2, 2012 IP