RewriteRule or RewriteBase, or both?

I need to create a subdirectory beneath document_root called /html
where I can server up all html documents.

I want the url in the browser to remain http://www.website.com without
the "/html" revealed in the url.

The rule below correctly redirects to the /html directory, however the
url in the browser looks like http://www.website.com/html/

RewriteRule ^$ http://test.website.com/html/ [R]

How can I serve up web pages from /html without is showing up in the
browser address field? I read many of the docs on the apache site, but
none seem to address this situation.

Regards,

RelaxedGuy

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relaxedguy2 wrote:
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> RewriteRule ^$ http://test.website.com/html/ [R]
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> How can I serve up web pages from /html without is showing up in the
> browser address field? I read many of the docs on the apache site, but
> none seem to address this situation.

They seem to hide well the bit where the "[R]" is defined, but it is
there in the reference manual with all the other options.

You can rewrite and redirect like you do.

If you "just" rewrite without redirecting, the right page is shown and
the browser URL never gets a chance to change. So you want a rule to
always add "html/" to the beginning of the directory path.

Of course why you don't just define this to be the new document root you
don't explain.

I'm still getting into mod_rewrite, but I think the only way is to play
at making it do different things till you understand it well enough to
make it do what you want.
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