Removing a folder from the URL using Apache mod_rewrite

Question

How do you remove a folder from the URL? I have a Drupal installation in a folder and I would like to remove that subfolder from the URL.

So instead of:

www.example.com/subfolder/*

I would like the url to be:

www.example.com/*

thanks

Answer 1

try

RewriteRule (.*) /subfolder/$1 [L]

Answer 2

You need to capture the .* like this:

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1/subfolder/ [L]

Answer 3

Try this:

RewriteRule !^subfolder/ subfolder%{REQUEST_URI} [L]

And to redirect direct requests of /subfolder/…:

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

Or, even better, change your document root to that subfolder.