John Davidson

Message:

I have a project with the name of social app which contains has a structure like this:

• includes
  
  
  
  • _login.php
  
  
  • _profile.php
  
  
  
  


• pages
  
  
  
  • login.php
  
  
  • profile.php
  
  
  
  

currently if I want to vists any page like profile.php I have to visit localhost/social-app/pages/login.php but I want to modify it and change the url to localhost/social-app/login.php. basically I want to get rid of the pages and make my URL a bit cleaner

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My Answer:
To achieve this, you can use the following code in your .htaccess file:

apache
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^login.php$ pages/login.php [L]
RewriteRule ^profile.php$ pages/profile.php [L]


This code will rewrite the URLs so that when you visit localhost/social-app/login.php, it will actually load the pages/login.php file. Similarly, when you visit localhost/social-app/profile.php, it will load the pages/profile.php file.

Make sure to place the .htaccess file in the root directory of your project (in this case, the social-app folder). Also, ensure that the mod_rewrite module is enabled on your server for this to work.

After adding this code to your .htaccess file, you should be able to access your pages using the cleaner URLs localhost/social-app/login.php and localhost/social-app/profile.php.