Question

Is there a way that I can rewrite a folder so that all the files under that folder follow the same rule? For example:

if i have a folder with say 5 php files (a.php, b.php, c.php, d.php, index.php) in it and i use the following rule:

RewriteRule ^products/storage/?$ /content/products/storage/index.php [QSA,L]

is there a way that I can get all the files to show to be accessed like: site.com/products/apples/a.php, site.com/products/apples/b.php, etc. without having to write a rule for each one?

I tried the following but it didnt work.

RewriteRule ^products/storage/?$ /content/products/storage/ [QSA,L]

I also need it to NOT overwrite my other rules such as:

RewriteRule ^products/storage/?$ /content/products/storage/product-name1/ [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^products/storage/?$ /content/products/storage/product-name2/ [QSA,L]

any ideas?

Answer 1

Your problem is the trailing $ on the end of the regex. This will only allow a match if the full URI matches products/storage (with optional trailing slash) exactly. Instead, try the following and note the absence of the trailing $ character:

RewriteRule ^products/storage/? /content/products/storage/ [QSA,L]

This will match anything that starts with products/storage (with optional trailing slash). Alternatively, if you wanted to capture and re-use everything in the URI that followed products/storage/ you could try:

RewriteRule ^products/storage(/?.+)?$ /content/products/storage$1 [QSA,L]

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UPDATE

Should you need to preserve other RewriteRules as your updated question suggests, you should look to add a RewriteCond condition like so:

RewriteCond !^products/storage/?$
RewriteRule ^products/storage(/?.+)?$ /content/products/storage$1 [QSA,L]

The RewriteCond tells the RewriteRule to only process if the condition is not met.