How to remove part of URl with .htaccess?

Question

Currently, I have 20+ URLs on my site in this format

http://www.example.net/content/index/mission

I want to remove /content/index from all URLs, so they should look something like this

http://www.example.net/mission

In other words, I would always remove /content/index from the URL. I'm sure it's really straightforward, but I'm not very experienced with Apache.

possible duplicate of [How to remove Controller and function name from URL in CodeIgnitor](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7603845/how-to-remove-controller-and-function-name-from-url-in-codeignitor) — Paul Dixon, Oct 10 '11 at 10:11

score 19 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 10 '11 at 08:51

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You would need the rewrite module of Apache: mod_rewrite.

Then do something like this:

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^content/index/(.*)$ $1

Here is the official documentation of mod_rewrite: click

answered Oct 10 '11 at 08:51

janoliver

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I tried it, but it is not working. I am working with CI. Can you suggest some more solutions? – Salman Aslam Oct 10 '11 at 08:57
I can't test it here right now. mod_rewrite is a pretty popular topic and you will find many information with google. Check if mod_rewrite is enabled and loaded with apache and try to find the correct pattern to work with. – janoliver Oct 10 '11 at 09:04
I can confirm that it's working, thanks @janoliver! – eldorjon Jun 29 '23 at 06:19

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 26 '19 at 07:41

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/removedstring/
RewriteRule ^removedstring/(.*)$ https://www.domain.eu/$1 [L,NC,R=301]

answered Apr 26 '19 at 07:41

Robert G.

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 10 '11 at 10:10

I'm going to guess you already have some rewrite rules in place for URLs like http://www.example.net/content/index/mission

You need to find these rules and add a new one which uses a similar structure but 'hard codes' the content/index parts, for example, suppose the existing one was

RewriteRule ^content/(.*)/(.*)$ /content.php?param1=$1&param2=$2 [L,qsa]

You'd want to make a new rule to pick up /mission and rewrite it in a similar way, but before the existing rule kicks in, e.g.

RewriteRule ^mission$ /content.php?param1=index&param2=mission [L,qsa]
RewriteRule ^content/(.*)/(.*)$ /content.php?param1=$1&param2=$2 [L,qsa]

These are just examples - it will really depend on what your existing rules are.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 10 '11 at 09:01

  # Get rid of index.php
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /index\.php
  RewriteRule (.*) index.php?rewrite=2 [L,QSA]

  # Rewrite all directory-looking urls
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$
  RewriteRule (.*) index.php?rewrite=1 [L,QSA]

Or just add index.html depending on whatever extention you want to remove and MOD_REWRITE is required on Apache for this to work. Thank you.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 10 '11 at 09:08

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I also have a script I wrote that you put on your server then browse to it via internet browser and it can confirm if you have mod_rewrite on your server. The way I showed you works 100% as long as mod_rewrite is enabled

answered Oct 10 '11 at 09:08

user958541

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I have already remove index.php from URL through .htaccess . So, i guess mod_rewrite is enabled. But now nothing is working for removal of content/index – Salman Aslam Oct 10 '11 at 09:31

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