Question

I’m finding a lot about creating pretty URIs and whatnot using mod_rewrite but what I’m looking for is a way to remove elements of a URL (as far as the viewer is concerned) and not just moving stuff around and/or reorganizing.

I need this:

http://www.mysite.com/foo/bar

to be this:

http://www.mysite.com/bar

Basically, let’s get rid of /foo in the URL.

Is that possible?

Answer 1

You can easily achieve that by simply dropping what you want to lose:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^foo/(.*)$  $1  [R=301,NE,L]

That should effectively remove foo/ from your URL. If you don’t want the address bar to reflect this change, remove R=301. The NE parameter is there to make sure that the request is not escaped.