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Asked: 2026-05-28T20:24:05+00:00

On a php web page, i’m displaying an html5 player which plays an mp3

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On a php web page, i’m displaying an html5 player which plays an mp3 track, and there’s a download button next to that. I want to mask the download link only, so visitors will not be able to see the directory tree of my server (www.example.com/content/plugins/audio/downloads/test.mp3). I want to change the link to something more simple and smaller like (www.example.com/download/test.mp3) without changing the folders structure of my server.

I’m not sure if it is an .htaccess or PHP thing.

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    With .htaccess you would need the following rewrite rule:

    $ pwd
/var/www
$ cat .htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/download/(.*\.mp3) /content/plugins/audio/downloads/$1 [NC]

    It will match all http://yourdomain.com/download/….mp3 requests and redirect to http://yourdomain.com/content/plugins/audio/downloads/….mp3

    If you want your .htaccess to work from inside a subdirectory, use RewriteBase:

    $ cat subdirectory/.htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /subdirectory
RewriteRule ^download/(.*\.mp3) content/plugins/audio/downloads/$1 [NC]

    i.e. http://yourdomain.com/subdirectory/download/….mp3 to http://yourdomain.com/subdirectory/content/plugins/audio/downloads/….mp3

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