Redirect home page via htaccess

[ArnyVee]

Hey there,

I want my recent activity page to be my home page when folks visit my domain. So, I'd like to see what I should place in my .htaccess file in order to move folks from mypage.net to mypage.net/index.php?recentactivity

 

[ArnyVee]

Is this a simple 301 redirect?

Redirect 301 /index.php http://www.disfriends.net/index.php?recent-activity/

 

[Chris D]

That should work!

 

[ArnyVee]

Does it matter where I include the line on the htaccess file?

Also, I just noticed that there is an htaccess.txt file ... should that be renamed to remove the .txt portion?

 

[Jake Bunce]

This will redirect only the root URL. This can be added to the top of the default .htaccess file if you are using that file:

RedirectMatch ^/$ /index.php?recent-activity

This works well without friendly URLs. But if you are using friendly URLs then the root URL is the forum index which means this redirect effectively overwrites the forum index making it inaccessible.

 

[ArnyVee]

This will redirect only the root URL. This can be added to the top of the default .htaccess file if you are using that file:

Jake, the file I have is htaccess.txt and is in the root. Do I rename that to .htaccess?

 

[Jake Bunce]

Jake, the file I have is htaccess.txt and is in the root. Do I rename that to .htaccess?

Yes.

 

[ArnyVee]

Worked perfectly, thanks Jake!