Question : Need a bit of help on .htaccess appending folder name to url

I must admit I find apache rewrite rules even more cryptic than sendmail! I need a bit of help on the following transformation:

http://www.mydom.com -> http://www.mydom/gohere/

If the user enters the first form (no subordinate folder), I want the URL to be rewritten as the 2nd form. However, if the user enters:

http://www.my.dom.com/elsewhere

then I don't want any rewrite. That is, if the user enters some subordinate folder name, fine, no worries, but if the user forgets to do that I want to default to "gohere".

How would I do that? I've tried:

RewriteRule ^$ gohere/

but that gives me: http://www.mydom.com/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/ohprs

not exactly what I'm looking for.

Answer : Need a bit of help on .htaccess appending folder name to url

Try the Redirect with a trailing slash:

Redirect 301 /  http://www.mydom.com/gohere/