Question

I want to redirect users trying to access http://www.mysite.com/folder or mysite.com/folder to the home page. BUT, I don’t want it to apply if someone accesses no www or http://www.mysite.com/folder/subfolder OR when they access either no www or http://www.mysite.com/folder/awesome-page.html

Answer 1

You may try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/[^/]+/?$
RewriteRule .* / [L,R=301,DPI]

Will redirect

http://www.mysite.com/folder or http://mysite.com/folder to

http://www.mysite.com or to http://mysite.com, but never when requested URL has 2 or more folders, like:

http://www.mysite.com/folder/OtherFolder/...