Hide directories in URL using htaccess

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I am trying to remove the php extension as well as hiding the sub directories using .htaccess file in my domain. However, I do not have much knowledge regarding regex and I am really stuck here. Would really appreciate if someone could assist with this!

What I'm trying to achieve is:
www.example.com/index.php to www.example.com/index
www.example.com/assets/php/company.php to www.example.com/company

CURRENT .htaccess FILE

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^assets/php/(.*)$ /$1 [L,NC,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [NC,L]

#To externally redirect /dir/foo.php to /dir/foo
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,L,NC]

</IfModule>

Currently, I could successfully remove the .php extension from the URL as well as achieving http://www.example.com/company but it displays a 404 Not Found Error. I believe I'm missing a RewriteCond line, but I do not know how to write it. Or do I require another htaccess file in /assets/php/?

Will really appreciate if someone could assist with this! Nevertheless, thanks for reading.

Cheers,

TY

Are all your files in /assets/php/ ? Or are there other subdirectories to worry about? You can write rules to prepend those directories under certain URLs but only if they follow some sort of pattern: stackoverflow.com/questions/5228901/… — Andy Hoffner
– Andy Hoffner, Commented May 13, 2015 at 20:57
@PedroLobito My apologies if I was unclear. The original URL was www.example.com/assets/php/company.php and I want to hide the assets & php folders. My desired outcome should be www.example.com/company — clouty
– clouty, Commented May 13, 2015 at 21:07
@ahoffner Besides my index.php which is at the public_html root folder, all the other php files are all within assets/php/. Do I need to have another htaccess file under /assets/php? — clouty
– clouty, Commented May 13, 2015 at 21:09

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-14 14:37:40Z

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You can have your rules like this in root .htaccess:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /assets/php/([^.]+)\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [L,NC,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/assets/php/$1\.php -f [NC]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+?)/?$ assets/php/$1.php [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1\.php -f [NC]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+?)/?$ $1.php [NC,L]

edited May 14, 2015 at 14:37

answered May 14, 2015 at 8:12

anubhava

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7 Comments

clouty Over a year ago

Hi! Everything works fine after using your code, except the index page returns a not found. Any idea why?

clouty Over a year ago

The site is accessible at example.com but not when accessed through example.com/index.

anubhava Over a year ago

Unless /index is a directory I believe example.com/index should also work by routing it to example.com/assets/php/index.php

clouty Over a year ago

actually, all the files in assets/php are working fine. Index is in the root folder at example.com/index.php. Is it possible to make it accessible through example.com/index too?

clouty Over a year ago

Thanks a million! You solved all the issues. I'll read up and refer to your solution to understand it. Cheers, have a nice day!

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Harutyun Abgaryan · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-13 21:17:41Z

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USe This

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

#enforce www subdomain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sitename.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)|
RewriteRule ^ http%1://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

#forward all requests, except new/admin, to the 'new' directory without the user's awareness
RewriteRule  new/admin  -  [S=2]
RewriteRule  ^$ new/    [L]
RewriteRule  (.*) new/$1 [L]

answered May 13, 2015 at 21:17

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clouty Over a year ago

Thanks for your answer! However, after I included the code, the website returned a 500 Internal Server Error error. How should I resolve this?

Harutyun Abgaryan Over a year ago

In yor dirctory exist new/admin folder?

clouty Over a year ago

I'm still getting the error with the container folder new/admin created. Would really appreciate if you could explain to me your answer regarding creating a 'new' directory?

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