How do I redirect a user to a subdirectory with mod_rewrite?

Junior WebHelper Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 1

Hello,

i have uploaded a new version of my site to a subdirectory on my FTP server, but I don't want to erase the old version yet. So I need to setup some redirection mechanism so that anyone typing www.mysite.com would get content fetched from www.mysite.com/new_site, but will still have www.mysite.com in his address bar (or whatever). I think that mod_rewrite is just the tool for this task. But i cannot understand how I should write the rule. I write the following:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /site_new/$1

but this results in a deadlock (I use a testing server for that Smile

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Can anyone suggest a rule for my task?

Thanks a lot