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[downbylaw]

I lately started doing some OOP programming. In my site root I want to create a directory ‘public’ where all the public content will go. Directories like ‘css’ ‘includes’ will go on the same level as ‘public’.

1. I don’t want to display the whole path (mysite.com/public/..) to my visitors but I want to set ‘public’ as a starting point when visitors type the url into their browser… Your host needs to support this option on their servers; does anyone know any hosts? How is this ‘option’ called by programmers?

2. Can I manage to do this with .htaccess?

Thanks!

[karlpcrowley]

Sounds like you’re trying to build an MVC framework
Here’s some tutorials to help you understand
(part 1 of 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Aw28-krO7ZM

Basically in the root of your site you would have index.php doing all of the work

Once you get the hang of it I recommend taking a look at CodeIgniter too
http://codeigniter.com/

[Krist]

root
—public/

---

index.php

---

css/

---

style.css

CASE
‘public’ folder as default controller.
You just call yours.com to view public/index.php

CODE [htaccess]

RewriteEngine on



# Change yours.com to be your primary domain

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?yours.com$



RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/$1



# Change yours.com to be your primary domain

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?yours.com$



RewriteRule ^(/)?$ public/index.php [L]

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