Question

So, I’ve just installed a code pasting utility on my website (like PasteBin basically, but using the open source PASTE script).
At the moment, a paste will be saved in the SQL database, with an integer ID.
The paste utilities directory is http://example.com/paste, and pastes can be found at http://example.com/paste/12345.

What I’d like to do, is create an htaccess rule so that when the user clicks on http://example.com/12345, they will be taken to http://example.com/paste/12345.

I’ve looked around at other questions, but none seem to ask (or solve) the same sort of question. But I could have looked in the wrong place, and someone will have a link to an answer within minutes of me posting. That would be equally great, but I’d prefer a more tailored solution, if possible.

NOTE: If anyone just wants to change the clickable link from http://example.com/paste/12345 (for example) to http://example.com/p/12345 without changing the actual subfolder name, check out my comment in the Accepted Answer. Otherwise, Dope Monk’s solution will work fine for my initial problem.

Answer 1

You will need to have a simple rule in your .htaccess using mod_rewrite. However, you must ensure that mod_rewrite is enabled when you use this rule

Add this:

RewriteRule ^/([0-9]+)/$ /paste/$1 [NC,L]