Need to have the home page redirect to a different document root with apache.

I want to have anything other than www.example.com and example.com directed to a different root directory.

so example.com and

example.com/page will be going to two seperate roots.

i need to do this so i can have the home page directed elsewhere while under development.

here is what my vhost for the site looks like.

ServerName www.example.com

ServerAlias *.example.com



DocumentRoot /var/www/example   

From serverfault

• Try this on your .htaccess file at /var/www/example:

  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.example.com$ [NC]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?([a-z0-9-]+).example.com [NC]
  RewriteRule (.*) %2/other_folder/$1 [L]
  

  Which would redirect anything but www.example.com and example.com to another folder.

  OR

  To actually have a different DocumentRoot you would need to create a new VirtualHost, you could try for example:

  <virtualhost *:80>
      ServerName www.example.com
      ServerAlias example.com
      DocumentRoot /var/www/example
  </virtualhost>
  
  <virtualhost *:80>
      ServerName anything.example.com
      ServerAlias *.example.com
      DocumentRoot /var/www/another_example_root_folder
  </virtualhost>
  

  So your first virtualhost would take only with and without www and the second anything else.

  : I tried the first method you mentioned with no luck i ended up getting this fixed by doing it in the php thanks anyways

  Prix : @user52177 Yes you can do that with a php aswell, anyway glad you got it working you might want to add your php code on a new answer and mark it as the solution to your question as it may also help others with the same problem. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5234/how-does-accepting-an-answer-work/5235#5235
  From Prix