redirect all html files in root except index.html

I'm trying to redirect all .html files in my root directory to a new directory with the exception of index.html

I moved all html files in the root to a new directory with the name /s/
except the index.html

I don't want to redirect files in subfolders.

I can't find out how to resolve this problem with .htaccess.
I tried many things but created only internal server errors.

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ index.thtml
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.html$ s/$1.html
RewriteRule ^index\.thtml$ index.html

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Thank you joebert

Doesn't this redirect also the .html files in the subfolders?

 

I've attached a zipfile that contains a directory named "rewrite".
Inside rewrite there is

1. Directory "s"
2. Directory "a"
3. .htaccess
4. index.html
5. test.html

Inside both "/rewrite/s" and "/rewrite/a" are an "index.html" and "test.html".

Each of the *.html files contain their path from the rewrite directory, so "/a/test.html" contains the text "a/test.html".

If you place rewrite in the sites root, so you have http://site.com/rewrite/ then you should see the following.

site.com/rewrite/index.html -- "index.html"
site.com/rewrite/test.html -- "s/test.html"

site.com/rewrite/s/ -- "s/index.html"
site.com/rewrite/s/test.html -- "s/test.html"

site.com/rewrite/a/ -- "a/index.html"
site.com/rewrite/a/test.html -- "a/test.html"

If this was to be in the site root instead of contained within the rewrite directory, then you would change the value of "RewriteBase" in ".htaccess" to "/" instead of "/rewrite".

In case you're wondering, I'm using Apache2-Debian.

<Directory /var/www/>
	Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
</Directory>

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Yes!

Thank you very much!

Would it be possible to change as well the directory in the url
if a file triggers "RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.html$ s/$1.html"

p.e.
if I put in the address bar: http://site.com/rewrite/test.html
this file will be loaden:
http://site.com/rewrite/s/test.html
but in the address bar is still this url:
http://site.com/rewrite/test.html

Is it possible to let the users see the new url?

 

The RewriteRule can have a redirect flag set to let the browser know it should use the new address instead.

It's as simple as adding [R=301] to the end of the RewriteRule

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.html$ s/$1.html [R=301]

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This results in the request for "/test.html" returning a 301 status and telling the browser to go to "/s/test.html" from now on instead.


With the way it was in my previous example, the browser never knew the swap existed. Basicly doing a "you say tomAto I say tomato".

 

Something went wrong.
I received an error.

 

What exactly did you do ?

 

I added [R=301] to:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.html$ s/$1.html

New rule:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.html$ s/$1.html [R=301]

However my domain is a virtual domain and when I add [R=301]
the real domain is showing up in the url bar with an error:
The requested URL /rewrite/s/test.html was not found on this server.

 

In that case, you'll need to use the entire url in the RewriteRule with the 301 attached.

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.html$ http://domain.com/s/$1.html [R=301]

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That's it!
Thank you very much.
You're an expert