Any way to redirect base purl path to real path?

I am using PURL, OG, OG Purl and path as modifier.

My OGs are: group1, group2

The OG "home pages" are at:

/group1/group1-home
/group2/group2-home

is there any way to get /group1 to redirect to it's own home page (/group1/group1-home), rather than appearing as just / and going to site home page?

I figured .htaccess should work but haven't been able to get something to work correctly.