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Asked: 2026-06-09T13:53:56+00:00

I’m trying to automatically redirect all .PDF and .pdf files from the website root

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I’m trying to automatically redirect all .PDF and .pdf files from the website root to a subdirectory called docs.

Note that there aren’t any actual PDFs on the website root, which is why I’m trying to use the !-f bit.

This is what I came up with so far, but it isn’t working. I would appreciate any help.

# redirect PDF files requested on the root '/' to /docs/<filename>.(pdf|PDF)
Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/(.(pdf|PDF))$ /docs/$1
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  1. Editorial Team

    Try changing your rule to:

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/docs%{REQUEST_URI} -f
RewriteRule ^/?(.*\.pdf)$ /docs/$1 [L,NC]

    The second condition may not be needed, it’s there in case a request is made that ends with “.pdf” but the pdf isn’t actually there, thus the first condition is true and there’s a rewrite loop (resulting in a 500 server error).

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