Mod rewrite for subfolder in subfolder

Question

this is my file structure at the web server:

DOCUMENT_ROOT/
  foo/
    www/
    .htaccess
  bar/
  index.php

What i should write to foo/.htaccess, if I want to redirect everything from www.myserver.com/foo/www/ to www.myserver.com/foo/?

I tried this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /www/$1 [L,NE]

But error 404 is always shown. I tried elaborate with RewriteBase also with no success.

Thanks a lot

P.S. When www/ and .htaccess is in DOCUMENT_ROOT, it works OK. But when I put them to subfolder, always getting error 404 :-(

Answer 1

Yes, I want to go to http://www.myserver.com/foo/ and get served the stuff in /foo/www

This will never work if your htaccess file is in /foo/www because it won't take effect unless the request is for something inside /foo/www. The request is only /foo so the .htaccess file is ignored. You'll need to either move the .htaccess file to the document root, changing it to:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/foo/www
RewriteRule ^foo/(.*)$ /foo/www/$1 [L]

or move it to the /foo directory, changing it to:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /foo
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/foo/www
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www/$1 [L]