Add part to a URL via htaccess-CodePudding

I have asked another question on here with the premise of limiting download speeds via PHP and I have since come to conclusion that using mod_limitrate was the best solution. so using the following code I have successfully managed to limit the download speed.

<Location "/limit5">
    SetOutputFilter RATE_LIMIT
    SetEnv rate-limit  5120
    SetEnv rate-initial-burst 5120
</Location>

<Location "/unlimited">
    SetOutputFilter RATE_LIMIT
    SetEnv rate-limit  204800
    SetEnv rate-initial-burst 204800
</Location>

However my file structure was not built with this in mind so everything is on the / directory, the following is my file structure

/downloads
-> /downloads/1.zip
-> /downloads/2.zip
...
...

Which makes my download links https://example.com/downloads/1.zip so is it possible to add a part to the URL such as https://example.com/limit5/downloads/1.zip however would still direct to https://example.com/downloads/1.zip ?

I am presuming htaccess is the answer, but I'm not sure how to go about this.

CodePudding user response：

You can try this rule in your Apache VirtualHost config or in site root .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^/?\w (/downloads/. )$ $1 [L,NC]

If you want to allow only 2 parts before downloads/ then use:

RewriteRule ^/?(?:limit5|unnlimited)(/downloads/. )$ $1 [L,NC]