Make web root folder a sub-folder with .htaccess?

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If you don’t have access to your host configuration

DocumentRoot can only be used in server and virtual host configs, .htaccess it must be.

  1. Let’s add directives in your .htaccess

    RewriteEngine on

  2. I assume you want to let the requests to /assets go through

    #if a match for asset is found, do nothing
RewriteRule ^assets/ - [L]

  3. If a request tries to access /php/views/pages/ directly, redirect it to its canonical version

    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} php/views/pages/
RewriteRule ^php/views/pages/(.*) http://mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

  4. And add a rule to map everything else to /php/views/pages/

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !php/views/pages/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /php/views/pages/$1 [L]

If you have access to your host configuration

Forget about .htaccess files and use it. A sample configuration could look like

# ~base stands for your original DocumentRoot
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot ~base/php/views/pages
    Alias /assets ~base/assets

    # other configuration parameters
</VirtualHost>

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