Question

I know, this should be easy, but I cannot make it work.

I have 2 domains pointing to the same folder in an Apache server, bahiadivers.com and bahiadivers.cl.

I want to redirect bahiadivers.cl to bahiadivers.cl/es/ and change the address bar.

I try this (among a million things)

rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bahiadivers.cl [nc]
rewriterule ^/$ http://www.bahiadivers.cl/es/$1 [r=301,nc] 

but didn’t work… I mean, the URL is not changing in the browser address bar, but also the languge (/es/) is not working… how should I do this?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Try this for your .htaccess

# Apache configuration file
DirectoryIndex index.php

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on

   # If URL is www.example.com/es/Blah, use /Blah/
   # Prevents needing to change existing links.
   RewriteBase /es/

   # Rewrite www.example.com to example.com
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.bahiadivers.cl
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bahiadivers.cl
   # Rewrite any inbound URL Bits to http://bahiadivers.cl/es/...
   RewriteRule (.*) http://bahiadivers.cl/es/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

That should do it.