Prevent direct access to subfolder, redirect instead

Question

The structure looks like this:

html

->index.html

->subfolder

--->1.html

--->2.html

I want to prevent direct access when someone visits mysite.com/subfolder. The user should instead be directly redirected to the index.html on the parent folder.

How is this possible with .htaccess?

Answer 1

Create an htaccess file in the subfolder and add the following :

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^$ /index.html [L,R]

Remove the R flag if want to internally redirect (without changing the url) /subfolder to /index.html .

Prevent direct access to subfolder, redirect instead

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