Redirect site using a .htaccess file Rumi, November 6, 2011 Instructions Create an empty text file using a text editor such as notepad, and save it as htaccess.txt. Edit the contents of the file. Check the following examples: Point an entire site to a different URL, such as domain.net redirected to domain.com: # This allows you to redirect your entire website to any other domain Redirect 301 / http://example.com/ Redirect index.html to a specific subfolder: # This allows you to redirect index.html to a specific subfolder Redirect /index.html http://example.com/newdirectory/ Redirect an old file to a new file path: # Redirect old file path to new file path Redirect /olddirectory/oldfile.html http://example.com/newdirectory/newfile.html Redirect to a specific index page: # Provide Specific Index Page (Set the default handler) DirectoryIndex index.html Scripts Apache