how to Remove Sub directory name from URL with htaccess?

Question

My URL was

http://demo.example.com/parentFolder/

but i have to redirect it to child folder, URL as

http://demo.example.com/parentFolder/ChildFolder/

i have redirect it in htaccess as

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?demo.example.com/parentFolder$
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/ChildFolder/


       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

       RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /ChildFolder/$1

       #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?demo.example.com/parentFolder$
       RewriteRule ^(/)?$ ChildFolder/ [L]

</IfModule>

but didn't remove sub folder(ChildFolder) from URL. i want to access childFolder after redirect but want to hide childFolder from URL.

Answer 1

You can use these rule in parentFolder/.htaccess :

RewriteEngine On

# remove ChildFolder from URL show in browser
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+(parentFolder)/ChildFolder/(\S*)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1/%2 [R=301,NE,L]

# add ChildFolder internally

RewriteRule ^$ ChildFolder/ [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(?!ChildFolder/).*$ ChildFolder/$0 [L,NC]