Hide folder from root URL of website

Question

I have a website set up on shared hosting like so...

http://www.mysite.com/cms/index.php

I'd like to have the /cms folder hidden from the URL. I also need to manage redirects from the old folder structure - if that is necessary.

Thanks

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Update

I ended up using this:

RewriteRule (.*) cms/$1 [L] from this doc

Added to settings.php for drupal

$base_url = 'http://www.mysite.com; // NO trailing slash!

Now just need to fix the redirects - the original pages come up, but retain the rewritten folder.

Answer 1

What you want to look into is mod_rewrite for Apache (often part of the default install).

You will then rewrite your URLs. For example:

#rewrite http://www.mysite.com/index.php to http://www.mysite.com/cms/index.php
#add more rules or RewriteCond to account for old URLs you want to keep active.    
RewriteRule ^/(.*)  /cms/$1

You'll probably also want to do a search on drupal and pretty or clean urls which will give you more info on this and will also let you drop the index.php.

Answer 2

Try to enable mod_rewrite and to add a rewrite rule like this:

RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /cms/$1

Not sure about redirects, probably you should utilize mod_proxy to handle proper redirects.