Redirection does not work

[Mazhar]

In cPanel, I went to "Redirects" option, and set up: theislamsite.com > theislamsite.com/muslims, nothing happens! It still goes to the main domain. What's the problem?

 

[Derek]

Is there a .htaccess file?

 

[Mazhar]

Yes it is inside /public_html

 

[Skizzerz]

It appears that cPanel did not set up the redirection properly, so you'll have to do it manually.

Your .htaccess file should look like the following (uncomment -- aka remove the "#" from the beginning -- of the redirect you want. Do not uncomment both):

## Rewrite requests from theislamsite.com > theislamsite.com/muslims
RewriteEngine On

## If this is an addon domain or otherwise NOT in your web root,
## change the RewriteBase below to point to the right directory
RewriteBase /

## If you want the redirect to be invisible
## (aka the content loads but the browser still shows just theislamsite.com),
## uncomment the following line
#RewriteRule ^/*$ /muslims [L,QSA]

## If you want the redirect to be visible
## (aka the browser is redirected to the site theislamsite.com/muslims),
## uncomment the following line
#RewriteRule ^/*$ http://theislamsite.com/muslims [R=301,L,QSA]

 

[Mazhar]

Thanks! It works!