.htaccess rewrite everything to parent directory

Question

I'm trying to rewrite every request to the parent directory.

This is the content of my .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ../$1

Unfortunately this isn't working and causes a 'Bad Request' error. Is this possible?

Answer 1

the .* should be caught between () this way the system knows it is suppose to "memorize" the expression as $1.