.htaccess - hide directory from users' address bar

[trol]

Hello,
i would be grateful if i can get some help with this issue.
i have a parent directory for a domain that has sub directories for each user.
in this i would like to find out if i need a separate .htaccess file for each sub directory belonging to the users.

also i would like to hide a directory from the users' view in the address bar.
each user sub directory has a separate sub domain

so if a user domain is sub.mydomain.com,
and the user accesses sub.mydomain.com/files/product.php,

i want the user to see this instead sub.mydomain.com/product.php,

even though the direcctory files exists and serves files, i want it hidden from the user's view.

 

[Nemanja]

Hey there! You can use a single .htaccess file in your parent directory to manage all the subdirectories for users. Just set up rules in the parent .htaccess file to handle each subdomain and its respective directory.

To hide the /files/ directory from the URL, you can use mod_rewrite rules. Here’s a basic example for your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub\.mydomain\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/files/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /files/$1 [L]

This rule rewrites URLs, so when a user accesses sub.mydomain.com/product.php, the server fetches sub.mydomain.com/files/product.php without showing /files/ in the URL. This way, your directory structure stays hidden.

 

[trol]

Thank you. I am going to try it