rewrite url, remove segment

Question

I'm trying to remove /uploads from a url. I have followed many examples but none of them work.

I think this one is the closest and should actually work but nothing is happening.

RewriteRule ^/uploads/(.+)$ /$1 [QSA]

here is what I have in the htaccess

# Enable URL rewriting for pretty URLs

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off

<FilesMatch "\.(?i:pdf)$">
  ForceType application/octet-stream
  Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/uploads/(.+)$ /$1 [QSA]

RewriteRule !\.(php|js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css|html|cgi|pdf|doc|xls|docx|xlsx|ppt|tff|svg|eot|woff|swf|mp3|wma|wav|MP4|AIFF|AAC|m4a|m4p|AVI|MOV|MPG|MPEG)$ index.php [NC]
#RedirectMatch ^/$ /misc/offline.php [NC]

I should go from: http://example.com/storage/uploads/droom.pdf To: http://example.com/storage/droom.pdf

Jon Lin · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-08 10:03:20Z

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Try replacing this line:

RewriteRule ^/uploads/(.+)$ /$1 [QSA]

with this:

RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?uploads(.*)$ /$1$2 [L]

answered Aug 8, 2012 at 10:03

Jon Lin

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Christophe Over a year ago

oh ofcourse, it didn't start with /uploads .. and .* is better then .+ i guess? Is working now, thanks.

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