URL Rewrite - Is this possible?

[mathcolo]

Hello!

I have been working with apache's mod_rewrite module and IIS's ISAPI_rewrite modules recently and for the first time in a while I have discovered a dilemma I just couldn't solve myself. I've looked on the documentation for rewrite mods and things, but I think maybe this idea is so strange it hasn't been documented very much before.

Here is my dilemma: (It is rather simple)

http://mywebsite.com/sites/site1/index.php

In a perfect situation, would turn into this:

http://mywebsite.com/index.php​

Is this possible with mod_rewrite/isapi_rewrite? Any help, ideas, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

It is also worth noting that this same document root is being accessed by 5 different hostnames. Also, in a perfect situation, the mod_rewrite script would use HTTP_HOST to differentiate between hosts.

 

[sunday]

Yep you can do that with mod_rewrite.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mywebsite.com/sites/site1/index.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mywebsite.com/index.php$1 [L,R=301]

I think that might do the trick...

 

[angelwatt]

Here's something to try out. I work with rewrites a bit. They could definitely be much more straight forward to create.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} mywebsite\.com [nocase]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} /sites/site1/index\.php
RewriteRule /sites/site1/(index\.php)? / [last]

 

[mathcolo]

Thanks angelwatt and sunday! I merged both of those codes to create what worked for my server. I cannot believe that... it is much easier than I thought at first.

 

[angelwatt]

Thanks angelwatt and sunday! I merged both of those codes to create what worked for my server. I cannot believe that... it is much easier than I thought at first.

Would you mind posting the final working version? Might help someone in the future that comes across this thread. Glad you got it working.

 

[JaclynMichelle]

What is the mod_rewrite/isapi_rewrite and how do you access it?

 

[angelwatt]

What is the mod_rewrite/isapi_rewrite and how do you access it?

See the Apache documentation.