diff --git a/Guardfile b/Guardfile
index d36a7e641..98d50fb63 100644
--- a/Guardfile
+++ b/Guardfile
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ guard 'rspec', :version => 2 do
   watch(%r{^app/controllers/(.+)_(controller)\.rb$})  { |m| ["spec/#{m[2]}s/#{m[1]}_#{m[2]}_spec.rb", "spec/acceptance/#{m[1]}_spec.rb"] }
   watch(%r{^spec/support/(.+)\.rb$})                  { "spec" }
   #watch('config/routes.rb')                           { "spec/routing" }
+  watch('config/routes.rb')                           { "spec/requests" }
   watch('app/controllers/application_controller.rb')  { "spec/controllers" }
   
   # Capybara request specs
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index 6f07c4f23..66fb97555 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 PlanningalertsApp::Application.routes.draw do
+  constraints :subdomain => "api" do
+    match "/" => redirect("http://www.planningalerts.org.au")
+  end
+
   ActiveAdmin.routes(self)
 
   devise_for :users, ActiveAdmin::Devise.config
diff --git a/spec/requests/redirects_spec.rb b/spec/requests/redirects_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4a9dec8b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/requests/redirects_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+require 'spec_helper'
+
+describe "redirects" do
+  describe "api redirects" do
+    it "should not redirect the normal home page on the normal subdomain" do
+      get "http://www.planningalerts.org.au"
+      response.should_not be_redirect
+    end
+
+    describe "requests on the api subdomain" do
+      it "to the home page should redirect" do
+        get "http://api.planningalerts.org.au"
+        response.should redirect_to "http://www.planningalerts.org.au"
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
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