Use htaccess to redirect root to subfolder without showing it in URL

Question

I am currently hosting a website using the Silex framework on a shared server and I have a problem...

Silex is like Symfony, there is an app.php file located in a /web/ subfolder : the website is then only accessible via the URL website.com/web/. I cannot create a virtual host as it is a shared server, so I think the solution is to use an .htaccess file...

I managed to redirect website.com to website.com/web/ automatically but I don't really like this option. I would rather website.com pointed directly to website.com/web/ but I don't know how to do this by just using a .htaccess file. I have been trying to solve this problem for hours now and it's killing me...

At the moment I use this file :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options -MultiViews
    
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ web/app.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

but it just redirects you from website.com to website.com/web

Is there anyway I can make the root url directly point to the /web folder with a .htaccess file?

Thank you very much :)

Answer 1

If you want access to http://example.com/subdirectory just by typing http://example.com this should work.

# .htaccess main domain to subdirectory redirect 

RewriteEngine on 
# Change example.com to be your main domain. 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com$ 
# Change 'subdirectory' to be the directory you will use for your main domain. 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdirectory/ 
# Don't change the following two lines. 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
# Change 'subdirectory' to be the directory you will use for your main domain. 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdirectory/$1 
# Change example.com to be your main domain again. 
# Change 'subdirectory' to be the directory you will use for your main domain 
# followed by / then the main file for your site, index.php, index.html, etc. 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com$ 
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ subdirectory/ [L]