URL-Rewriting help

Question

Hello,

I am new to URL rewriting and saw in many sites the effect of URL Rewriting. I am completely new to this area. Even, i am finding hard to learn this.

The help is, I want to rewrite http://www.example.com/resources/pages/demos/any-page.html

to

http://www.example.com/demos/any-page.html omitting the resources/pages/ directory. I hope this rewriting is possible and if please help me in providing the .htaccess code for this rewrite. I am using a linux server.

Answer 1

put .htaccess at /, and in that file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^demos/(.*)\.html resources/pages/demos/$1.html

Answer 2

mod_rewrite isn't the easiest thing to grasp at first. I think you'll find the following code sufficient:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^demos/(.*)\.(htm|html)$ resources/pages/$1.$2 [L]

This needs to be placed in the document root of your site. It will handle both .html and .htm pages and match only those pages. To match any page after the demos/ url (With any extension) use the following:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^demos/(.*)$ resources/pages/$1 [L]