How to use htaccess to change site.com/directory/ to site.com/ ?

I'm using Wordpress as my base and have been getting headaches as to how to intergrate a directory. I'd prefer to keep it at site.com rather than a subdomain.site.com, so would changing site.com/directory/ to site.com/ work? The current /index.php in site.com/ is being used by Wordpress.

Can anyone help?

 

huh? could you explain more?

 

Ok..I'm using Wordpress on the root of my site, but now want to use other software which I've installed on a catalog/ directory.

The posts will look like catalog/page.php - but how can I change it to site.com/page.php instead of site.com/catalog/page.php

 

Ok still confused sorry..

So you want wordpress to handle all files/urls except the files/urls in the /catalog/ directory which will be handled by other software?

Explain what that means and I can hook you up.

 

hehe, nope!

i'd like to configure the htaccess so that when someone types site.com/catalog/page.php it redirects them to site.com/page.php

Normally the catalog goes into the root directory, but Wordpress is already there so would like to somehow integrate the two softwares so that the user doesn't notice catalog/ is in a directory.

Thanks

 

URL rewriting could work in that case

 

ok, how could i use url rewriting... hmm

 

first what do you mean when you say that /catalog/page.php should redirect to /page.php?

you want a real redirection (301, 302), or do you want this to be transparent to the end user?

Here is are rule you could use to make this transparent:
RewriteRule ^catalog/page\.php$ /page.php [L]

Cheers.

 

Thanks, but catalog/page.php is just an example of one of many pages on the site.

So to redirect catalog to the homepage would be?:

RewriteRule ^catalog/$ / [L]

Cheers

 

That would work just for that directory, and it wouldn't work for any sub-files... and I think you asked for urls to be rewrite other way around. You can try something like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ /catalog/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^$ /catalog/ [L]

Code (markup):

I'm not sure if you have any subfolders in there (in that catalog dir)... if you do, then you'll need some additional rule for that also.
This will rewrite your files from catalog/ subfolder to your main url. That's what you need, right?

 

Thanks man, that worked