Mod Rewrite Hide Folder

Question

I think this is a pretty simple question.

How do you an apache rewrite to hide a folder.

EX: www.website.com/pages/login.php to www.website.com/login.php

Answer 1

I know the original post here was from a couple years ago, but it's been coming up first in the search engine, so maybe this will help others looking to hide a folder name in the URL.

Not exactly what original poster wanted, but along the same lines.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomainname\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomainname\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subfoldername/
RewriteRule (.*) /subfoldername/$1

The above example would redirect any request to mydomainname.com or www.mydomainname.com to the subfoldername directory in the root directory for the domain, and the subfolder name would not appear in the URL.