Rewrite to a folder and hide the folder name in url : RewriteCond     %{SERVER_NAME}    ^sitename.com        [NC,OR] RewriteCond    %{SERVER_NAME}    www.sitename.com    [NC] RewriteCond    %{REQUEST_URI}    !^anyfiletoexclude.php    [NC] RewriteCond    %{REQUEST_URI}    !^/foldertoredirect/    [NC] RewriteCond    (.*)        /foldertoredirect/$1 force use www RewriteCond    %{SERVER_NAME}    ^website.com$ RewriteRule    ^/(.*)        http://www.

Create a Self Signed Certificate : 1. Generate A Server Key : #openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 4096 2. Generate the Signing Request using the key above #openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr 3.Sign the certificate signing request. #openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey