Use htaccess to mask folder name

Question

Here\'s a problem I\'m always wanting to solve with htaccess. I haven\'t found a way yet, though it looks like it should be possible - perhaps someone can help.

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Answer 1

I found a sort of workaround - by using a symlink and htaccess in combination.

First I created a symlink from /bar to /foo/.
Then I put this in htaccess :

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule ^foo/(.*)$ bar/$1 [R,L]

This has exactly the desired result - example.com/bar/ shows the content of the /foo/ directory, and example.com/foo/ redirects to example.com/bar/

But if anyone can come up with a pure htaccess solution I'd much prefer that!

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Update :

Ok, I've finally found out how to do this. It turns out to be quite simple...

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /foo/
RewriteRule ^foo/(.*)$ bar/$1 [R,L]

RewriteRule ^bar/(.*)$ foo/$1

The only problem is that it doesn't take account of RewriteBase, so you have to include the full path in the first line (after ^GET\).

Answer 2

If I understand correctly what you want is something like this inside your .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^foo/$ bar/
RewriteRule ^bar/$ foo/
</IfModule>