.htaccess how to display long sub-directory urls as short urls in address bar? - apache

Question

I've been trying to solve this problem for a couple of days now.
My root folder is https://www.example.com, I have many articles on it but in different folders and sub-folders for better organizing.
The problem is that I want links to look better and not like:
> https://www.example.com/reviews/review_1/index.html
/review_2/index.html
/review_3/index.html
or
https://www.example.com/articles/blog/content_1/index.html
/content_2/index.html
/content_3/index.html
but instead, I want all folders under "reviews and articles" to appear like root/dirs:
https://www.example.com/review_1/index.html
https://www.example.com/content_1/index.html
...so is it possible to exclude ../reviews/ or ../articles/blog/ folder somehow, but to have the same directory structure and also not to have duplicate content, indexes or duplicate DIRs?
EDIT / I found the solution:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^review_1/(.*) reviews/review_1/$1
This code will redirect from folder reviews/review_1/ to unexisting folder review_1 on root and copy all content from reviews/review_1/ to review_1.

Answer 1

just create an associative arrow specifying the mapping between url's and what they mean under the hood, for example I use in php like this-
$route = array(
array(
'url' => 'review_1/index.html',
'map_to' => '/articles/blog/reviews/index.html'
),
array(
)
);
or better version like implementing simple routing-
$route = array(
array(
'url' => '/review/',
'controller' => 'controller_class',
'action' => 'model_class'
),
array(
)
);
better proceed with second process..
do some research in implementing routing yourself or use basic framework.
Hope it helps.