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apache.htaccessmod-rewrite
William Santos
William Santos

Reputation: 23

Rewrite URLs internally between folders, except for index.php

I have two folders:

/forum/admin
/forum/adminhide

I would like to have a .htaccess file in the forum folder which would internally rewrite everything except index.php on /admin to /adminhide.

Example:

http://website.com/forum/admin/index.php -> don't do anything
http://website.com/forum/admin/image.png -> internal rewrite to http://website.com/forum/adminhide/image.png

All my attempts so far have only produced Server Internal Errors.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 175

Answers (1)

Ilmari Karonen
Ilmari Karonen

Reputation: 50338

This might work (in a root-level .htaccess file):

RewriteRule ^forum/admin/index\.php$ - [S=1]
RewriteRule ^forum/admin/(.*) forum/adminhide/$1

Any URLs matching the first rule will not be rewritten (since the substitution has the magic value -), and the [S=1] flag causes the next rule (which does the actual rewrite) to be skipped if the first rule matches.

Note that this interprets your requirements very literally: every URL path beginning with forum/admin/ is rewritten, except for forum/admin/index.php. You may prefer to change the first rule to something a bit looser, such as:

RewriteRule ^forum/admin/(index\.php(/.*)?)?$ - [S=1]

This will also match (and thus exclude from the rewrite) the URL paths forum/admin/ and forum/admin/index.php/whatever.

Edit: If you want to put the .htaccess file for this in the forum folder, just remove the initial forum/ from the rules and set RewriteBase appropriately instead:

RewriteBase /forum/

RewriteRule ^admin/index\.php$ - [S=1]
RewriteRule ^admin/(.*) adminhide/$1

Upvotes: 1

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