Sometimes as a web developer, I get the oddest requests. I recently needed to redirect the root of a subdomain to a sub folder within that sub domain. So basically I wanted to send a request for subdomain.example.com to subdomain.example.com/subfolder. I was able to achieve this by using Apache mod_rewrite and .htaccess. You will need mod_rewrite enabled on your server and hopefully you are on a Linux / Unix paltform for this to work. At the root of my domain I created a .htaccess file with this code: