rewrite a folder name using htaccess

Question

I am wondering wether it s possible to use  htaccess to rewrite a folder name   What I mean is this   Lets say I have a url like   www site com folder1 page php   Now I want to rewrite the url to  for example   www site com apple page php   The folder1 is an existing folder on my webspace    important  the  apple  is not a folder rather just a name   Ok here is a step by step plan    User types www site com folder1 login php The url should rewrite and not redirect the url to www site com apple login php   This means that apple is just a name and not a directory  All the code should just come from folder1  Acutally apple should just be an alias for folder1  I can t just rename folder1 to Apple  Therefor I would just rewrite folder1 to apple

User · Accepted Answer

mod rewrite can only rewrite redirect requested URIs  So you would need to request  apple     to get it rewritten to a corresponding  folder1       Try this   RewriteEngine on RewriteRule  apple      folder1  1   This rule will rewrite every request that starts with the URI path  apple     internally to  folder1         Edit        As you are actually looking for the other way round   RewriteCond   THE REQUEST   GET   folder1  RewriteRule  folder1       apple  1  L R 301    This rule is designed to work together with the other rule above  Requests of  folder1     will be redirected externally to  apple     and requests of  apple     will then be rewritten internally back to  folder1

User · Answer

try   RewriteRule   apple        folder1 1  NC    Where the folder you want to appear in the url is in the first part of the statement - this is what it will match against and the second part  rewrites  it to your existing folder  the  NC  flag means that it will ignore case differences eg Apple  will still forward   See here for a tutorial  http   www sitepoint com article guide-url-rewriting   There is also a nice test utility for windows you can download from here  http   www helicontech com download rxtest zip Just to note for the tester you need to leave out the domain name - so the test would be against  folder1 login php  to redirect from  folder1 to  apple try this   RewriteRule   folder1        apple 1  R    to redirect and then rewrite just combine the above in the htaccess file   RewriteRule   folder1        apple 1  R  RewriteRule   apple        folder1 1  NC

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