Question

currently i have a /en/ folder that is empty except for a .htaccess with the following

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ../index.php?language=en$1 [NC]

i use it to eliminate the need for

index.php?language=en

in all my URLs. I would like to modify the htaccess in a way that i no longer need the /en/ folder with nothing but the htaccess inside. ideally i would like an htaccess in my root folder that reads the url and if it is http://www.example.com/en/ to rewrite to http://www.example.com/index.php?language=en

Answer 1

This should work for you:

RewriteRule ^en/(.*)$ index.php?language=en$1 [NC]