Removing string from URL using .htaccess

Question

I have URLs in the form of example.com/pages/page1 and /example.com/pages/page2

Is there an easy way in .htaccess to get rid of the /pages/ section, so my URLs are:

example.com/page1

Thanks

Wait - please clarify so I understand your goal: Do you want your end-users typing in example.com/pages/page1 which redirects internally to example.com/page1 or do you want your end-users typing in example.com/page1 which redirects internally, silently to example.com/pages/page1? — Michael Berkowski
– Michael Berkowski, Commented May 12, 2011 at 13:13
I want users who type example.com/pages/page1 to be redirected to example.com/page1 etc — terrid25
– terrid25, Commented May 13, 2011 at 12:46

Michael Berkowski · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-13 12:53:32Z

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If you have the ability to modify the DocumentRoot, it sounds like you would just need to set your DocumentRoot to /path/to/pages. However, if you can't do that then you can try this in .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /pages/$1 [L,QSA]

The above is generic and redirects everything to /pages. If your pages really are called "page1 page2 etc", then this is more specific:

RewriteRule ^/page([0-9]+)$ /pages/page$1 [L,QSA]

Remove the [L] if you have more rewrite rules to process. The [QSA] forwards along any other querystring parameters that may have been present.

EDIT: For users to enter example.com/pages/page1 to be redirected to example.com/page1:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/pages/(.*)$ /$1 [L,QSA]

The above will redirect internally but not change the browser's address bar. If you want the address bar to change, informing the user that the redirect has happened, use [L,R=301,QSA] instead.

edited May 13, 2011 at 12:53

answered May 12, 2011 at 10:56

Michael Berkowski

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terrid25 Over a year ago

My page names are dynamic, so are similar to /pages/about-us and /pages/contact. I have other pages, such as /categories and /users so I'd rather not redirect everything, just those that match /pages/dynamic_url

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