map requests for / to to display the content from a sub folder-CodePudding

I have the following working. It essentially will pull in content from a sub folder if it exists without displaying the subfolder in the url. The sub folder is /content

If a request comes in for example.com/foo/test and the folder /content/foo/test/ exists it will render the content for the requested URL. So the URL will remain what it is even though content is rendering from a subdirectory.

This is great. How do I have it map requests / to the index.htm file in the /content directory without actually changing the url also?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# Remove trailing slash on any URL that is requested directly (excludes rewritten URLs)
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule (.*)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]

# If request maps to a directory in "/content" then rewrite and append trailing slash
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/content/$1 -d 
RewriteRule ^([^.] )$ content/$1/ [L]

CodePudding user response：

You can include another "unconditional" rule before the last rule to rewrite requests from / to content/ - no need for any filesystem checks. For example:

# Rewrite root
RewriteRule ^$ content/ [L]

# If request maps to a directory in "/content" then....
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