Rewriting path for a specific file using htaccess

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I would like to create a friendly url for a specific file from a directory that has a long file path as well as renaming the file. I am not even sure if this is possible.

So far I have tried in htaccess:

RewriteEngine On 
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule eventdays-2012/brochure.pdf(.+)$ sites/default/files/docs/fact_sheet-204499207.pdf

... but this is not working.

I've done some searching and see where you can mask an entire directory in the file path but in my case I just want to do one file within the directory, create a directory name and change the file name as well.

How would you normally access `fact_sheet-204499207.pdf`? You can't access files outside of your document root without an Alias. — Jon Lin, Oct 02 '12 at 23:23
@JonLin - /sites/default/files/ etc.. is under the document root already and i just want a psuedo directory under the doc root to be "eventdays-2012". I probably should not have used the word "virtual" — Danny Englander, Oct 02 '12 at 23:31
root is `example.com` where `example.com/sites` is a sub-directory. — Danny Englander, Oct 03 '12 at 15:52

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 23 '16 at 15:37

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Try removing the (.+) part from your regular expression. It makes it so you need something after the brochure.pdf. Also add some boundaries:

RewriteEngine On 
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule ^/?eventdays-2012/brochure.pdf$ /sites/default/files/docs/fact_sheet-204499207.pdf [L]

edited Dec 23 '16 at 15:37

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answered Oct 03 '12 at 17:44

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Rewriting path for a specific file using htaccess

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