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Vittorio Romeo
Vittorio Romeo

Reputation: 93324

.htaccess - silently rewrite/redirect everything to internal subfolder

Let's say I have thiswww.example.com site structure:

/srv/http/
/srv/http/site/index.php
/srv/http/site/stuff.php

I want the following rewrites/redirects to happen:

www.example.com/index.php -> redirects to -> www.example.com/site/index.php -> but the user sees -> www.example.com/index.php

www.example.com/stuff.php -> redirects to -> www.example.com/site/stuff.php -> but the user sees -> www.example.com/stuff.php

In general, everything after www.example.com/ redirects to www.example.com/site/. But the user sees the original URL in the browser.

I've looked around on the internet but haven't managed to figure out what to use in this particular situation.

I tried rewriting everything:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ /site [L]

but index.php disappears and www.example.com/site/ is shown to the user.

How can I use .htaccess to solve this problem?

Upvotes: 13

Views: 12129

Answers (3)

kums
kums

Reputation: 2701

Same idea as @guido suggested, but a bit shortened using negative lookahead

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(?!site/)(.*)$ site/$1 [L]

Note: I am not using QSA flag as we are not adding additional parameters to the query string for the replacement URL. By default, Apache will pass the original query string along with the replacement URL.

http://www.example.com/index.php?one=1&two=2

will be internally rewritten as 

http://www.example.com/site/index.php?one=1&two=2

If you really want add a special parameter (ex: mode=rewrite) in the query string for every rewrite, then you can use the QSA Query String Append flag

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(?!site/)(.*)$ site/$1?mode=rewrite [L,QSA]

Then this will combine mode=rewrite with original query string

http://www.example.com/index.php?one=1&two=2

to

http://www.example.com/site/index.php?mode=rewrite&one=1&two=2

Upvotes: 8

user2934155
user2934155

Reputation: 

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ site/index.php?var=$1 [L]

With this rule, i'm passing all requests to site/index.php, so you could get the requested uri via $_GET['var'], and then you'll make the index.php serve the requested url behind the scene without the url changing in the user's browser. Ciao.

Upvotes: 1

guido
guido

Reputation: 19224

You need to capture the url request incoming into the server, like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/site/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /site/$1 [L,QSA]

The QSA is (eventually) to also append the query string to the rewritten url

Upvotes: 12

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