[[!meta title="How do I redirect visitors from my web.mit.edu or www.mit.edu URL to my scripts.mit.edu website?"]]
URLs on web.mit.edu (e.g., http://web.mit.edu/jbarnold/ or
http://web.mit.edu/\~jbarnold/, the tilde is optional) point to the
top level of your Athena locker (/mit/jbarnold in this case).

URLs on www.mit.edu (e.g., http://www.mit.edu/\~jbarnold/, the
tilde is required) point to the www subdirectory of your Athena
locker (/mit/jbarnold/www).

If you want visitors to your web.mit.edu or www.mit.edu URL to see
your scripts site instead, first, cd to the directory corresponding
to your web.mit.edu or www.mit.edu URL (for example, my directory
/mit/jbarnold/www corresponds to the URL
http://www.mit.edu/\~jbarnold):

athena% **attach jbarnold**  
athena% **cd /mit/jbarnold/www**

Next, create a **.htaccess.mit** file in this directory and add
rewrite rules to it. For example, if I wanted to redirect both
**http://www.mit.edu/\~jbarnold/** and
**http://web.mit.edu/jbarnold/www** to
**http://jbarnold.scripts.mit.edu**, I would add the following two
lines:

**Redirect 301 /\~jbarnold http://jbarnold.scripts.mit.edu**  
**Redirect 301 /jbarnold/www http://jbarnold.scripts.mit.edu**

The first line handles redirecting http://www.mit.edu/\~jbarnold to
http://jbarnold.scripts.mit.edu and the second line (which is
completely independent) handles redirecting
http://web.mit.edu/\~jbarnold to http://jbarnold.scripts.mit.edu.

Finally, if you placed this in your locker, rather in the www
subdirectory, you may need to give the web.mit.edu server access to
your locker, so it can read your .htaccess.mit file (warning: this
will also cause all the files in your locker to be readable over
web.mit.edu):

athena% **fs sa . system:htaccess.mit read**

You should check that the redirect is working, and that people
cannot read your personal files via web.mit.edu (e.g.,
http://web.mit.edu/jbarnold/).

You can find more information about .htaccess files and Apache
Redirect rules via Google. IS&T has a
[website about .htaccess.mit files](http://web.mit.edu/ist/web/reference/web-resources/https.html),
but it focuses on restricting content, not redirects. If you have
questions about how you should set up your .htaccess.mit file, feel
free to contact us by e-mailing scripts@mit.edu.

You can also
[redirect visitors from your scripts.mit.edu site to another website](http://scripts.mit.edu/faq/63).