HtAccess: Basic ModRewrite

Question

Given urls like this:

mysite.com/index.php 
mysite.com/page/member/lobby.php 
mysite.com/page/videos/video1.php

How can I rewrite the urls with .htaccess to hide the /page/ folder when it's present?

So the end result is:

mysite.com/index.php
mysite.com/member/lobby.php
mysite.com/videos/video1.php

Answer 1

You can use this rule to add page/ to your path internally:

RewriteCond $1 !=page
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/.+ page/$0 [L]

Now every request that’s URI path has at least two path segments but that’s first segment is not page will be prefixes with /page. So /member/lobby.php will be rewritten to /page/member/lobby.php.