htaccess redirect + hide subfolder in url

Question

I've looked around and have attempted some rules and conditions that worked; while some did not work or the condition would capture too much causing other domains to also redirect. This works for me:

# Redirect (also catches www.)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ subfolder [L]

resulting in if you visit www.domain.com OR domain.com being redirected to domain.com/subfolder Great, but I'dd also like the /subfolder part to be hidden from the url.

How do I achieve this ?

Note that I have multiple domains, each should redirect to its own folder. I also want each page to still be visible in its respective folder.

So www.domain.com/abc should redirect to domain.com/subfolder/abc but show domain.com/abc

Solution

Try this rule:

# remove www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [NE,R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$
RewriteRule !^subfolder/ /subfolder%{REQUEST_URI}  [L]

Comments

[Zerreth]

This works ! But I just noticed that the www. part is treated as optional, instead of being removed. While this is perfectly fine, is it possible to let it also always remove the www. ?

[anubhava]

Actually we need a separate www removal rule since this is just internal rewrite.

[Benubird]

Don't forget you need RewriteEngine on

[yardpenalty.com]

@Zerreth. You typically want to allow www in the DNS settings by adding a CNAME record and then a simple redirect in .htaccess or http.conf without www

[Anatol]

anubhava can you tell how to exclude several folders like RewriteRule !^subfolder/ OR !^subfolder2/ OR !^subfolder3/ /subfolder%{REQUEST_URI} [L]

[anubhava]

@tBook: Use: RewriteRule !^(subfolder|subfolder1|subfolder2)/ /subfolder%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NC]