Hide folder name from particular URL using .htaccess

Question

I had a root folder and a subdirectory in it. My project is in subdirectory. I want to show that subdirectory in all my urls except for one page which is show_film.php

I want it to be

www.xyz.com/show_film/

instead of

www.xyz.com/subdirectory/show_film/

I had tried

RewriteRule  ^show_film/$ subdirectory/show_film.php
RewriteRule  ^show_film$ subdirectory/show_film.php

I always get 404 error if I use the above code. I am placing the above code in root htaccess

My Root Htacess Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^abc\.in$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.abc.in/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

RewriteRule (.*)\.xml(.*) $1.php$2 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (\.ico|sitemap\.xml|\.css|\.js|\.png|\.jpg|\.gif|robots\.txt)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(category)
RewriteRule .? - [S=6]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(/page/)
RewriteRule .? - [S=2]
RewriteRule ^category/(.*)/page/(.*)/$ index.php?action=category&slug=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^category/(.*)/page/(.*)$ http://%1/category/$1/page/$2/ [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/$ index.php?action=category&slug=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?action=category [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ http://%1/$1/$2/ [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(tag)
RewriteRule .? - [S=6]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(/page/)
RewriteRule .? - [S=2]
RewriteRule ^tag/(.*)/page/(.*)/$ index.php?action=tag&slug=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^tag/(.*)/page/(.*)$ http://%1/tag/$1/page/$2/ [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/$ index.php?action=tag&slug=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?action=tag [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ http://%1/$1/$2/ [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(blog)
RewriteRule .? - [S=7]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(/page/)
RewriteRule .? - [S=2]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/page/(.*)/$ index.php?action=blog&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/page/(.*)$ http://%1/$1/page/$2/ [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/$ http://%1/$2/ [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^blog$ http://%1/blog/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?action=blog [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ http://%1/$2/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/$ index.php?action=blog&slug=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (ajax|sitemap)
RewriteRule .? - [S=2]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?action=blog&slug=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?action=$1 [L,QSA]

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^abc\.in$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.abc\.in$
RewriteRule ^post\/goa\-government\-websites\-hacked\-allegedly\-palestine\-hackers\/$ "http\:\/\/www\.cyberintelligence\.in\/goa\-government\-websites\-hacked\-allegedly\-palestine\-hackers\/" [R=301,L]

Answer 1

Try :

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /subdir/(show_film)\.php\sHTTP [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [R,L]
RewriteRule ^show_film/?$ /subdir/show_film.php [NC,L]