How to redirect website to particular file? - php

Question

There is a domain name. Let's say domain.com.
When the user types domain.com only, he should be redirected to the address domain.com/file.html. How can I do that with a .htaccess file?
Plus, what does RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] mean? Would it help me?

Answer 1

Add to your .htaccess file
DirectoryIndex file.html

Answer 2

Check out this site: .htaccess tricks and tips It's a good reference for rewrite rules.
As for what does RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L] mean. It's going to ignore anything with an index.php ending Rewrite Rule meaning

Answer 3

To redirect you can make a index page (the first page that the user visits)
DirectoryIndex file.html
modifying your .htaccess file according to this link.
For RewriteRule you need to able the mod_rewrite module in apache and then make in your .htaccess file
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) file.html [L]
</IfModule>
In the RewriteRule you can put regular expressions to identify the url and redirect the user to a file that you want (in this case you would redirect all your links to file.html). More info here.
Moreover in the configuration file of the apache server by default is possible you have the next configuration:
#
# DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory
# is requested.
#
<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.php4 index.php3 index.cgi index.pl index.html index.htm index.shtml index.phtml
</IfModule>
So, by default if you have a file called index.php in your webroot of your domain.com always that file would be called first.

Answer 4

Try putting the following in your .htaccess file located in the root of domain.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#put all the following rules before any other rules in the .htaccess file
RewriteRule ^file\.html$ - [L]
#domain.com or any subdomain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+)\.domain\.com$ [NC]
#the root of domain
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/?$ [NC]
#return file.html
RewriteRule . file.html [L]