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    copied!<p>My URL structure is currently as follows:</p> <p><a href="http://domain.com/folder/filename" rel="nofollow">http://domain.com/folder/filename</a> (CURRENT)</p> <p>I want to change this so that I can use the following URL instead:</p> <p><a href="http://sub.domain.com/filename" rel="nofollow">http://sub.domain.com/filename</a> (NEW)</p> <p>So accessing the CURRENT <strong>or</strong> the NEW url, should load the file located at the CURRENT url, but show the NEW url in the address bar. It should only apply to the "/folder/" path.</p> <p>sub.domain.com is a mirror of domain.com, ie. they share the same file system and root directory.</p> <p>This is what I have so far:</p> <pre><code>Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/folder/?(.*)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://sub.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L] </code></pre> <p>This is working, but is missing the rule to remove the "/folder/" from the path. I've tried combining multiple RewriteRule's with no luck. Any ideas? Thanks.</p> <hr> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> Thanks again @Gerben - I understand what your rules are doing now, but the second one isn't working for me. I suspect because it's conflicting with some other rewrite rules, in particular those of WordPress, which are lower down in my .htaccess file:</p> <pre><code># BEGIN WordPress RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress </code></pre> <p>Because of this the page ends up in a redirect loop, ie (from Chrome): "The webpage at <a href="http://sub.domain.com/folder/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://sub.domain.com/folder/index.php</a> has resulted in too many redirects." - while the url I was originally trying to access was, for example, <a href="http://sub.domain.com/page" rel="nofollow">http://sub.domain.com/page</a></p> <p>Any ideas?</p>
 

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