This should be simple :(

[AlCapone]

Hi, i have read about 10 different tutorials and searched the forums on this site to help me but i still can’t get it to work when everyone else makes it look so simple!
I have a site with only one page, index.php
this address http://www.thedailyjoke.co.uk
i want to be able to add somthing onto the end of this url so http://www.thedailyjoke.co.uk/joke
And the site goes to the index page rather than a 404 error page as the page does not exist.
Now all the tutorials i have read say the same thing, use .htaccess file, but i can’t get it to work and i have no idea why.
This is my .htaccess file at the moment.

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thedailyjoke.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.thedailyjoke.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

This works as it should but can someone please help me with the rest of the code?

Many Thanks
Chris

[JaredAM]

htaccess junk is never simple.

Try adding a $ to the end of your first line: ^thedailyjoke.co.uk$ [NC]

[AlCapone]

Thanks for the reply – the code i have posted is the code that is already in my file, it all works perfectly its the other part that i mentioned originally that i can’t get to work.
THe code thats’s already there just forces the address to be, http://www.mysite rather than http://mysite

[JaredAM]

Ah, I must have misunderstood your original post.

Here’s some code that I got to work for one of my sites which basically pointed the root address to a subfolder, maybe you can use something from it:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mysite.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/mysitesubfolder/

# Don’t change these lines.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Change ‘subfolder’ to be the folder you will use for your main domain.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /mysitesubfolder/$1 [L]

# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain again.
# Change ‘subfolder’ to be the folder you will use for your main domain
# followed by / then the main file for your site, index.php, index.html, etc.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mysite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ mysitesubfolder/index.php [L]

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