simple mod rewrite question

This would seem like an easy question to answer but I have searched all the examples I can find and nowhere have I seen it. What I'm trying to do is rewrite the base url www.mysite.com to display www.mysite.com/mypage.php

can anyone tell me how to do this?

 

Nobody? surely this can't be too difficult?

 

The easiest solution would be to use PHP. If you create an index.php file and use the header function it should do exactly what you are looking for.

<?php
header("location:mypage.php");
?>

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If you want to just many another file be the "index" and load every time you go to a site you can use the directory index option in .htaccess.

Directory Index mypage.php

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The way the site has been coded means I have to use the rewrite option sadly. Does anyone know how to do this?

 

You need to do something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/$ mypage.php [R]

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