htaccess Elite

Hello,

I would like to do the following:

Let's say the folder structure on my server looks like this:

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http: //example.com/examples/website1
http: //example.com/examples/website1/folderA

http: //example.com/examples/website2/
http: //example.com/examples/website2/folderA

http: //example.com/examples/template/
http: //example.com/examples/template/folderA
http: //example.com/examples/template/folderB


I would like to have a .htaccess file which makes some kind of a redirect, so that users can type in: http://example.com/examples/website1/folderB while they are actually looking to the website in the /template/ folder. The browser URL should be displaying the address with /website1/.

The reason for this is that we are creating websites for customers which are partly the same. We don't want to upload the same data over and over again.

Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks in advance!

This is easily accomplished, but could you provide more examples of urls that will be typed in the browser and the actual file/folder to be displayed?

Thank you for your reply!

All of these:

http: //www.example.com.au/websites/website1/Gen
http: //www.example.com.au/websites/website2/Gen
http: //www.example.com.au/websites/website3/Gen

Should all point to:

http: //www.example.com.au/websites/website_template/Gen

But the display URL should still be (for example) http: //www.example.com.au/websites/website1/Gen

We currently upload the same Gen folder into each website folder now, but this takes up a lot of storage on our webhost.

You could place this in the folder /websites/.htaccess

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/Gen(.*)$ /website_template/Gen$1 [NC,L]

Thank you very much! I'm going to try it soon.