mod rewrite in Expression Engine: removing directory in URL

Question

Hello,

I am working in expression engine CMS and I have some rewrite code to remove the index.php from the URL but on some of my URLs I want to remove the directory /site/ before the file name.

Like I have /site/pennsylvania_attorneys.html

I want to remove the site part and just have it read /pennsylvania_attorneys.html

The current mod rewrite code I have now is:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(images|css|themes|tools|admin|inc|js|cgi-bin|swf|themes|pennsylvania_attorneys_tpl\.html|license\.txt|attorney-tpl\.html|favicon\.ico|robots\.txt|index\.php) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Well you could cut all this and simply do this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^.*$ site/$0 [L,QSA]

And you don't have to "remove" the index.php from the URLs, you can simply never put it there. Shall work just fine.

Answer 2

Thanks but that didn't work, when I removed mine it went to blank page; I tried adding your code but it didn't remove the site/

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond $1 !^(images|css|themes|tools|admin|inc|js|cgi-bin|swf|themes|pennsylvania_attorneys_tpl.html|license.txt|attorney-tpl.html|favicon.ico|robots.txt|index.php) [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

RewriteRule ^.*$ site/$0 [L,QSA]

Answer 3

Try these rules:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /site/
RewriteRule ^site/(.*) /$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule !^site/ site%{REQUEST_URI}

That will redirect any request of /site/… externally to just /… and reappend it internally if it’s missing on request.