Objective

To use .htaccess rules to redirect /site/ to /site/YYYY/ on pages that rely on FrontPage Server Extensions.

The Redirect

I use RedirectMatch in /site/.htaccess for redirects to sub-directories:

RedirectMatch ^(/site/?|/site/index\.html)$ /site/YYYY

This rule says that the server should redirect requests for either this directory (/site/) or this directory’s index file (/site/index.html) to /site/YYYY/.

Caution

Add the additional rules after the part of the .htaccess file that FrontPage has already written to.

The Workaround

This will work for basic pages, but for pages that rely on FrontPage Server Extensions there is an extra step. You need to add:

Options +FollowSymlinks

to each of the .htaccess files in the underscore sub-directories of /site/, and their sub-directories too, e.g.:

As above, be sure to add the new rule at the end of the file, after the FrontPage-related rules. If you add the redirect rule to the main .htaccess file but don’t add the options rule to these other .htaccess files then people will not be able to log into /site/ (i.e. open the /site/ “web”) using FrontPage.

Relevant sites

Sites that I’ve set up to work this way are:

See also:

.htaccess Resources: