Help needed on .htaccess

[sharugan]

I have a website http://www.peoplebeep.com that runs on tomcat.
When user types http://www.peoplebeep.com i want to redirect to http://www.peoplebeep.com/dialogue/index.php so i have created .htaccess in route directory under public_html dir
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks -Multiviews
#Discussions
RewriteRule (.*) /dialogue/index.php [QSA,L]
But when the user clicks on home in index.php page i want to redirect to
http://www.peoplebeep.com/home.php
How do i accomblish this.Do i need to write the rule in .htaccess file under /public_html/dialogue dir?
can any expert guide me

[TimIgoe]

Wouldn't it be easier just to have an index.php in the www.peoplebeep.com folder that has a line

header('Location: /dialogue/'); 

[clamcrusher]

you use the term redirect, and your using mod rewrite.

a redirect will send a location: header to the browsers and cause the address bar to change.
a rewrite will cause the webserver to interally map the request to a different filename, so the address bar in the browser wil not change to reflect the actual file/url that is processing thier requests.


so, what is it that you want? a redirect, or a rewrite?



btw timigoe, while that may seem to be a more straightforward solution, its less efficient. theres no need for the webserver to invoke the php engine just to do a redirect if the webserver can handle this(simple in this case) logic itself.

[sharugan]

Thanks for the reply.I want rewrite.Please help me solve this issue.

I have a website http://www.peoplebeep.com that runs on tomcat.
When user types http://www.peoplebeep.com i want to rewrite to http://www.peoplebeep.com/dialogue/index.php so i have created .htaccess in route directory under public_html dir
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks -Multiviews
#Discussions
RewriteRule (.*) /dialogue/index.php [QSA,L]
But when the user clicks on home in index.php page i want to redirect to
http://www.peoplebeep.com/home.php
How do i accomblish this.Do i need to write the rule in .htaccess file under /public_html/dialogue dir?
can any expert guide me

[nueva]

whhy don't u use a php file to redirect your website.

[clamcrusher]

put this in your doc root

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks -Multiviews
#Discussions
RewriteRule ^$ /dialogue/index.php [L]

you dont need a rule for the second scenario.
just <a href="home.php">
or even
<a href="/home.php">

[dklynn]

# .htaccess in DocumentRoot
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?dialogue/
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ dialogue/$1 [L]

BUT better to change your DocumentRoot to the dialogue subdirectory.

Regards,

DK