title: Wordpress URL Redirect and Mask on same Domain
body: <p>I'm frankly very new to .htaccess files and was wondering if someone could help me.</p>
  
  <p>I'm running a Wordpress website and would like to redirect my example.com/index.html page to example.com/somthing/portfolio </p>
  
  <p>I set up a simple 301 redirect but that does not keep example.com in the address bar but switches to example.com/somthing/portfolio </p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to keep the 301 redirect but keep only my domain for that particular link? In other words I'd like the visitor to land on a portfolio page which via Wordpress can not be assigned as default home page (as it is housed under Projects), but essentiality keep my domain name in the address bar.</p>
  
  <p>Current default Wordpress .htaccess file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My 301 redirect:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Redirect /index.html http://www.example.com/portfolio/portfolio/ports/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thankyou in advance.</p>