.htaccess: Redirect without changing url

Question

I would like to have a URL be redirected to a different page on the same domain but without the browser changing the URL. So the page www.mydomain.co.uk/tour/ should point towards www.mydomain.co.uk/ but without changing.

I have looked at a lot of similar questions on Stackoverflow but all the solutions seem to change the URL for me.

CODE:

RewriteEngine On Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/tour RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.co.uk/ [L]  

Answer 1

Because you provide a full URL in your rewrite rule it is automatically treated as a redirection. Replace the full URL with just a slash and it should work, i.e.:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/tour RewriteRule ^(.*)$ / [P]  

You can even shorten it down to:

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/?tour.* / [P] 

Answer 2

1- Use [P] instead of [L]

2- Use $s at the end of second line to have a set of urls redirects and remove / at the end of it too.

The code will look like this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/tour RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1 [P]  

which treats with more than the index page of the folder tour.