This is useful if your WordPress blog is installed to a subfolder and you want the main domain to forward to it.

In your public_html folder (also called the “root directory” or “document root”), you need to create a file called .htaccess. You can do so by using the File Manager in cPanel.

From this file, we are going to use a few lines to redirect those requests in a search engine friendly way.

Add the following lines to that file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?yourdomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ blog [L]

The only change you need to make is to change “yourdomain.com” to your domain. This will then redirect everything from the domain to the folder /blog at that domain. If you want to change that folder just edit the “blog” part.

If you are hosting additional domains, which are added as Addon domains or sub-domains in cPanel, they have their own document root folder and should be found in account’s home directory (above public_html).

You can easily locate the document root for an addon domain from cPanel > Domains > Addon Domains and look at Modify Addon Domain section.

As for any sub-domains, you can easily locate the document root from cPanel > Domains > Subdomains > Modify a Subdomain section.