While I’m developing a new website in php I put all the source code into a directory and then to deploy the site I move the source code into the webhosting .
This way I can host different releases of the same site at the same time.
As a side effect, to access to my web site the URL is not very clean, for example to access the last release of the site (let’s say version v6) a user shall type an address like the following one:
www.mysite.dom/v6/
It would be better if the user could type only
www.mysite.dom/
to reach this goal with apache2 I make use of the rewrite module, writing the following .htaccess file in the root directory of my web site:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ /store [L]
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