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When I first launched my site, it I had MediaWiki in the root and a wordpress blog in a subfolder, /blog/.

After a while spammers took over the MediaWiki site and I had to remove it. The problem is I lost a lot of good content and inbound links from 3rd party sites.

My goal is to redirect the root folder to /blog/ while keeping the rest of the URL string intact. I have a Wordpress plug-in going that will automatically track the 404 errors. As these come in I'll be able to pull the old content from archive.org and give it a new home on a wordpress page.

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Try using mod_alias in Apache.

For example:

# When someone visits "/" (root) actually take them to "/blog".
Alias / /blog
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  • Clever. I would have gone straight to mod_rewrite, but this seems to be a perfect fit for the problem. But perhaps your example should illustrate how he mainly intends to use it, which would be to ensure /foo goes to /blog/foo and /foo/bar goes to /blog/foo/bar.
    – Lèse majesté
    Apr 30, 2012 at 2:28
  • Do I drop these lines into the .htaccess file? <br><br> alias / /blog/ <br><br> I do I need the last / because there will be URL strings after there? Will this work too? redirect 301 / /blog
    – Jeffrey Henderson
    Apr 30, 2012 at 2:52
  • Ignore the <br><br>, I was trying to space out my text, not use to this site yet.
    – Jeffrey Henderson
    Apr 30, 2012 at 2:58
  • Just adding a line that says Alias / /blog in a single line will probably fix this issue for you. If it doesn't work, read about how to set it up using the link I posted.
    – Only Bolivian Here
    Apr 30, 2012 at 4:24
  • @lesemajeste How would I do it with mod_rewrite?? I can get the home page to redirect but I can't get any of the old URLs to redirect. The old URLs all look like this: wikiprotest.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
    – Jeffrey Henderson
    Apr 30, 2012 at 4:50

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