Removing directory from url using htaccess

Server Config
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Hi, our website www.evolve.uk.net runs on MODx Revolution and uses the friendly urls feature. In order to create 3 menus i’ve created virtual directories in MODx, but this unfortunately leads to them being included in the URL. Browsing the website you will notice /main-menu/ and /utilities-menu/ is included.

What I need to do is remove these from the URL using htaccess. I’ve been trying all afternoon but with no luck. The closest I came is this, which did remove the directory, but every page redirected me back to the home page…

RewriteRule ^main-menu/(.*)$ http://www.evolve.uk.net/$1 [R=301,L]

Any ideas please? Thank you

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Thanks David, further to your response I tested my code on a plain html site and it works perfectly. It is obviously the MODx CMS, or something else in the .htaccess file preventing the code working. Thanks, Andy

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ec,

The redirection is displayed for two reasons:

  1. R=301

  2. http://

EITHER will cause the redirection to be displayed.

As for your “redirected back,” is that your 404 response? I would expect that of virtual directories as Apache has no knowledge of whatever else is going on with your coding.

Regards,

DK