I developed a giant studio of tools and each tool has its own directory in the /tools/ folder. So if you have a tool named example, the URL would be /studio-dir/tools/example/.
I'm trying to hide the /tools/ directory from URLs, while making sure other files outside of the /tools/ directory still work. For example, the /index.php file and /admin/ directory should remain.
I tried this, but it only caused massive 404 errors on everything. I know it's probably waay off, I suck with rewriting URLs. :P
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/tools/
RewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)$ /tools/$1 [L]
If you're still confused, I want:
http://www.example.com/studio/tools/example/index.php
To be able to load as:
http://www.example.com/studio/example/index.php
Whilst still keeping the /tools/ directory, and allowing other files outside of the /tools/ directory to load.
Is this possible?
You will need something like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule /studio/(.*) /studio/tools/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
The problem is it will not work if the requested file is both in the studio-folder and the tools-folder.
But there no way to prevent this, as the server never knows if an URL is meant to refer to /studio/tools/ or /studio/
Edit: You can remove /tools/ from the visible urls like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule /studio/(.*) /studio/tools/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /studio/tools/(.*) /studio/$1 [L,R=302]
</IfModule>
In this example there is not 404 but it only works to hide only one dir
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+dirname/([^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule (?!^dirname/)^(.*)$ /dirname/$1 [L,NC]