If you are trying to develop new website for your domain and want to redirect all the queries from internet to old directory, the just copy below code and put it at the beginning of .htaccess file and upload to root directory of your domain using ftp. RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/old/ # Rewrites all URLS [Replace "domain" with the actual domain, without the TLD (.com, .net, .biz, etc)] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?yourdomain\. # Rewrite all those to insert /folder RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /old/$1 [L] Above code will redirect all queries from your website’s urls from search engine to old website with same link.

Implementation details

Now if you want to exclude some URL’s from the redirect, check the post

Gotchas and common issues

  • Permission checks - verify user access rights and sudo privileges before executing system-level operations.

  • Environment configuration - double-check path variables and dependency versions to prevent runtime failures.

  • Backup safeguards - maintain configuration backups before applying system or database modifications.

Following these steps ensures clean configuration and reliable execution for redirect primary domain to a subdirectory.