hide folder using .htaccess with subfolders

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I have been trying to figure out this for a while but no success-

I have this site structure http://example.com/catalog/current/sub-folders/.. The result should hide the folder "current" so that the paths look like http://example.com/catalog/sub-folders/

This is what I have so far-

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) $1\.php [L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+current/([^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule (?!^current/)^(.*)$ /current/$1 [L,NC]

when I place this .htaccess to the root and go to http://example.com/catalog/sub-folders/, it try to look for /current/catalog/sub-folders/

Any help to approach this problem will be highly appreciated.

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-21 17:54:59Z

1

Keep your code like this:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+(catalog)/current/(\S*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1/%2 [R=301,L,NE]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(catalog)/((?!current/).*)$ $1/current/$2 [L,NC]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.php [L]

edited Jul 21, 2014 at 17:54

answered Jul 19, 2014 at 3:27

anubhava

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Vinit Over a year ago

Tried this but does not seem to do anything

anubhava Over a year ago

What URL did you try to test and what is location of this .htaccess? Are there more rules?

Vinit Over a year ago

I put the .htaccess at the root of the server "/" No there are not other rules. The url I tried is localhost/catalog/current/test-1/

Vinit Over a year ago

this works. thank you so much!! One last question- how can this be modified so that path like localhost/catalog/current/ or simply localhost/catalog/ also rewrites to whats inside "current"?

Vinit Over a year ago

thanks for the updates. I tried that and it shows the contents of /catalog when I use localhost/catalog/current/ or localhost/catalog/ but not what is in 'current'.

Jon Lin · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-19 03:03:37Z

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Try making the last rule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule (?!^hsc-bulletin/)^(.*)$ /current/$1 [L,NC]

This instead:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/current/
RewriteRule ^(?!hsc-bulletin/)(.*)$ /current/$1 [L,NC]

answered Jul 19, 2014 at 3:03

Jon Lin

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