I need to rewrite all requests to files at mydomain.com/storage/archive/ab7572d3-c697-4cfa-9b23-71b6f9c388d1
to
mydomain.com/public/storage/archive/ab7572d3-c697-4cfa-9b23-71b6f9c388d1
So I am adding "public" in the url, nothing else. The files are stored as shown above: 36 characters without extension. Therefore I am looking for a regex to match /storage/archive/ followed by 36 character long file name without extension
I am trying to make it through .htaccess file.
Use a RewriteRule to match the whole path and prepend your new parent to it:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/(storage/archive/[0-9a-f-]{36}.*) /public/$1 [R]
The regex itself is pretty basic:
^ match at the beginning of the path/ match a literal forward slash(…) capture this parenthesized part as $1
storage/archive/ (literal text match)[0-9a-f-]{36} match any [digit, letter from a to f, or a dash] 36 times.* plus anything else you see (note, this will not include query strings)(Yes, I could have put that first slash inside the capture, but I wanted it to be clearer when I rebuilt it with /public; otherwise, it'd be /public$1. Same functionality, but a little less legible.)
