Add two directories using Mod_Rewrite?

[i-CONICA]

Hi, Richard.

I need to be able to put a huge list of subdirectories into a subfolder so that they're all contained in one place on the server. Away from all the other sites files. But the URLs cannot have this naming convention.

For instance:
domain.com/animals/horses/white-ones/
Where animals is just one of many many categories.

So to keep all these categories from cluttering up the root of the domain, i'd want to put them into a folder called categories. But I cannot have that in the URLs.
So I want to put the category animals into a subdirectory called categories but make categories invisible to the users.

How can I do this with Mod_rewrite?

Thank you!

[richardk]

/categories/animals will be a directory?

Try

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/categories/$1 -d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)(/.*)?$ /categories/$0 [QSA,L]

[i-CONICA]

Hi, Richard.

Thanks for the reply.

The directory on the server is simply to keep all the categories etc.. in one neat place.

The idea is, I can have things layed out like this on the server.

/anydirname/animals/horses/brown-horses/

But /anydirname/ is invisible from the web. So I can link to
/animals/horses/brown-horses/ and it will resolve. Accessing
/anydirname/animals/horses/brown-horses/
on the server.

I hope that clarifies what I'm trying to do.

Thank you.

[richardk]

You have made it less clear. Does anydirname change?

Have you tried the mod_rewrite i provided?

[i-CONICA]

Hi, Richard.

No, the directory name will never change.

It's simply so I can keep all the hundreds of categories in one neat place on the server but that place will be invisible to the users.

On the server:
/neatplace/animal/horse/

linked on the site:
/animal/horse/


I hope that clarifies it.

ps. I have tried the code, it didn't work.. I changed categories with the actual directory name obviously...

[richardk]

Try

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/[^/]+)(/.*)?$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/categories%1/ -d
RewriteRule . /categories%{REQUEST_URI} [QSA,L]

[i-CONICA]

Spot on! Works perfectly.

Thank you for the patience, and thank you for the code too.