How do I have subdomain.domain.com/ugly/path load subdomain.domain.com/newpath?

Question

I've spent a lot of time looking around and have unfortunately not been able to come up with anything that works.

I have an address in the following format:

subdomain.domain.com/ugly/path

that I want to prettify to:

subdomain.domain.com/newpath

How do I do this using .htaccess?

I'm not sure if this changes anything but the subdomain is simply an A record pointing to an IP address. There is no folder on the server.

Answer 1

You can use this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =subdomain.domain.com
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+ugly/path/(\S*)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [L,R=302] 

RewriteRule ^newpath(/.*)?$ ugly/path$1 [L,NC]

Answer 2

if the /ugly/ really is not necessary than you can simply move the content to your subdomain folder.

what you have currently is ...............

subdomain.domain.com/ugly/path1 (rootfolder/subdomain/ugly/path1)

subdomain.domain.com/ugly/path2 (rootfolder/subdomain/ugly/path1)

what you need to change is ............

rootfolder/subdomain/ugly/path1 ---> rootfolder/subdomain/path1

rootfolder/subdomain/ugly/path1 ---> rootfolder/subdomain/path1