remove folder from url with htaccess

Question

So I have a folder named pages which includes the pages for my site, when opening one of these files the url reads -

zebrafishweb/pages/contact

I would like it to just read

zebrafishweb/contact

I already have this htaccess file to remove any .php .html extensions which i would also like to carry on using. I don't have a clue how to write these htaccess files just copied it from the web and tailored it to me!

 RewriteEngine on

 RewriteRule ^(themes|order-now|submissions|faq|contact)$ $1.php [NC,L]
 RewriteRule ^(home|faq)$ $1.html [NC,L]

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2022-09-28 08:13:26Z

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You already have a .htaccess inside /pages/ subdirectory with some rules for .php and .html extensions
You want a redirect to shorter URI /contact instead of /pages/contact

With those you can have your rules like this:

site root .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^contact/?$ pages/contact.php [L,NC]

pages/.htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

# redirect to shorter URL
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /pages(/contact)[?\s]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=302]

# add .php to these files
RewriteRule ^(themes|order-now|submissions|faq|contact)/?$ $1.php [NC,L]

# add .html to these files
RewriteRule ^(home|faq)/?$ $1.html [NC,L]

answered Sep 28, 2022 at 8:13

anubhava

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2 Comments

RavinderSingh13 Over a year ago

Thank you sir for sharing nice answer. Just want to check here by site root .htaccess you mean htaccess(new one) should be along side with pages folder? Thank you.

anubhava Over a year ago

Yes site root directory should be one level above pages directory

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