rewrite a folder name using .htaccess

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I am wondering wether it's possible to use `.htaccess` to rewrite a folder name. What I mean is this. Lets say I have a url like: ``` www.site.com/folder1/page.php ``` Now I want to rewrite the url to (for example) ``` www.site.com/apple/page.php ``` The folder1 is an existing folder on my webspace. important: the "apple" is not a folder rather just a name! Ok here is a step by step plan: - User types `www.site.com/folder1/login.php` - The url should rewrite and not redirect the url to `www.site.com/apple/login.php` This means that `apple` is just a name and not a directory. All the code should just come from folder1. Acutally apple should just be an alias for `folder1`. I can't just rename `folder1` to `Apple`. Therefor I would just rewrite `folder1` to `apple`.

Accepted Answer

mod_rewrite can only rewrite/redirect requested URIs. So you would need to request `/apple/…` to get it rewritten to a corresponding `/folder1/…`.

Try this:

```
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^apple/(.*) folder1/$1
```

This rule will rewrite every request that starts with the URI path `/apple/…` internally to `/folder1/…`.

Edit As you are actually looking for the other way round:

```
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /folder1/
RewriteRule ^folder1/(.*) /apple/$1 [L,R=301]
```

This rule is designed to work together with the other rule above. Requests of `/folder1/…` will be redirected externally to `/apple/…` and requests of `/apple/…` will then be rewritten internally back to `/folder1/…`.

rewrite a folder name using .htaccess

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