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Url rewrite and forced 404

We serve our content via ourdomain.com/folder.

The next iteration of the application is ready to be rolled out in ourdomain.com/folder2.

If a user tried to access ourdomain.com/folder2 directly he would get a 404.

I need a to get a rewrite rule that serves the content of ourdomain.com/folder2 under the url ourdomain.com/folder and gives the 404 for direct access to ourdomain.com/folder2.

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Why bother with mod_rewrite? Can't you just rename the subdirs?

mv folder folder.old
mv folder2 folder
Alex Howansky  2010-10-05 20:36:41
Good thinking, but the all the php files in the folder2 points to the same system in the the templates directory, templates/folder2.Then I would have to edit every single php file.And once we have version 3 going, the renaming process would have to take place again.Doing the rewrite is less time consuming once it has been implemented, then I just need to change one character for every version iteration.
pigfox  2010-10-05 21:59:18
Heh ok, well take this opportunity to learn a valuable lesson: use relative paths. :) Or, at the very least, store the path in a variable so that it only needs to be changed in one place.
Alex Howansky  2010-10-05 22:15:43
Also, you can symlink folder2 to folder after you rename it -- no editing required.
Alex Howansky  2010-10-05 22:17:47
Symlinking might do the job. Thank you!
pigfox  2010-10-06 17:32:50

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