mod rewritten directory shorten

Question

I can only find mod rewrite examples/tutorials for query's, so can someone help me with this.

I would like this

http://website.tld/Folder1/Folder2/Folder3/Folder4/Folder5/File.exten

to be transformed into

http://website.tld/Folder4/File.exten

Folder4 and Folder5 are multiple directories, while Folder 1-3 stay the same. Also File.exten also should be changeable in the rewrite. thanks.

Answer 1

This should work:

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ Folder1/Folder2/Folder3/$1/Folder5/$2 [QSA,NC]

Answer 2

I would use something like this:

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ Folder1/Folder2/Folder3/$1/Folder5/$2 [QSA,NC]

([^/]+) is better since ^(.*)/(.*)$ would match http://website.tld/somedir/somedir2/somedir3/

Answer 3

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^grab /public/files/download/download.php

this rule would transform this user's URL..

http://mysite/grab?file=my.zip

server-side, into..

http://mysite/public/files/download/download.php?file=my.zip

says here: http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php