[Solved] .htaccess mod_rewrite

[copperSmith]

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How would I go about doing this:

I want all urls that are:

domain.org/directory/file-name.html

to be redirected to that same file name but with an expanded directory path

domain.org/directory/subdirectory/file-name.html

I am imagining/learning that this is possible, but must be done via a 301 permanent redirection. I just can’t seem to cut through the formatting for .htaccess files to accomplish this. My CMS is taking all my relative links and turning them into root relative… so taking: "../directory/file-name.html" and turning it into "/directory/file-name.html"

So a link that leads to:

domain.org/directory/subdirectory/assets/style.css

via relative links for example, is being turned into:

domain.org/directory/assets/style.css

And breaking.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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[copperSmith]

dratts… this doesn’t seem to work. Here is what I have:

Code:

# BEGIN DIRECTORY REDIRECTION
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /about/
RedirectMatch 301 (.*).shtml http://trinityportland.org/our-school/about/$1
# END DIRECTORY REDIRECTION

Things I changed:

the /directory/
the domain/subdirectory/
the .html to .shtml[/list:u]
Perhaps (apologies, but hopefully) I was just errant in how I described my goal and current situation:

http://www.trinityportland.org/our-school/index.shtml
http://www.trinityportland.org/our-school/about/index.shtml[/list:u]
is the structure of my site.

The CMS (*sigh*), when encountering relative links (../about/index.shtml) is rewriting that markup as (/about/index.shtml), because it doesn’t work with subsites/sub directories and relative links. You either send it to the root with relative pathing, or you use absolute… As a stop gap, I am using absolute.

Had I stuck with relative it would send users from their intended destination, for example:

http://www.trinityportland.org/our-school/about/index.shtml%5B/list:u%5D
to a broken link:

http://www.trinityportland.org/about/index.shtml%5B/list:u%5D
So… what I need to do is redirect a user from all those folders on my site that hold content:

/about/

index.shtml
/assets/various media specific directories/file-name.ext
/contact/
/single/
/academics/
/admissions/
/student-life/
/alumni-parents/[/list:u]
and have them redirect to the user requested file-name.ext but at the appropriate sub-directory:

/our-school/about/

index.shtml
/assets/various media specific directories/file-name.ext
/our-school/contact/
/our-school/single/
/our-school/academics/
/our-school/admissions/
/our-school/student-life/
/our-school/alumni-parents/[/list:u]

This is sounding like a tall order, so even looking this concept over let alone actually providing a snippet sample that I can dupe for all the required directories would be amazing.

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