Usually the DocumentRoot of the webserver directly relates to the URL "/". But often this data is not really of top-level priority.
For example, you may wish for visitors, on first entering a site, to go to a particular subdirectory /about/. This may be accomplished using the following ruleset:
Solution:
We redirect the URL / to /about/:
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RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/$ /about/ [R]
Note that this can also be handled using the RedirectMatch directive:
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RedirectMatch ^/$ http://example.com/e/www/
