Question

I want to show the URL

http://www.example.com/blog/feedback
as

http://www.example.com/feedback

How can I do so using .htaccess?

Answer 1

You will need mod_rewrite to do this.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule ^/feedback$ /blog/feedback
</IfModule>

Have a look here for a tutorial information on mod_rewrite.

EDIT:

If you are trying to move JUST /blog/feedback to /feedback then you will have to first move your base from /app/webroot/blog/ to /app/webroot/, edit all your rules to account for it and then add your new rule. Could be done like so:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /app/webroot/

  RewriteRule ^/blog/index\.php$ - [L]
  RewriteRule ^/blog/feedback$ /feedback [L]

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule /blog /app/webroot/blog/index.php [L] 
</IfModule>

NB: This should work, but I’m not at my work station right now so I can’t check it 🙁 If anything goes wrong it’s probably a typo somewhere – let me know.