Hide wordpress prefix in url using .htaccess

Question

I'm managing a wordpress blog like example.com/site/hello-world/ and I want to hide the site prefix. One thing I can do is to reinstall but that's not suitable as the blog is huge.

so how can I do with with .htacess?

Answer 1

Try this

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on assuming you havent already
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^site/(.*)$ /$1 [L,NC,R]

Here are the tags used

L  - Last
NC - Ignore (No) Case comparison
R  - External redirection with 302