Subdirectory shows in the url

Server Config
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I am hosting a website on godaddy, and briefly uploaded the site but the subdirectory shows on the url

E.g, If I click on aboutus, the url that comes up is www.example.com/code/aboutus.html

I will like this to be www.example.com/aboutus when a user clicks on the aboutus link on the page.

More Information

  • I have all my codes in the code folder (subdirectory) and my index code in the main directory.

I tried this
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^aboutus/?$ code/aboutus.html [NC,L]

But it only works when you type www.example.com/aboutus but not when you click on the about link on the site.

Any help will be appreciated

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Apache can only take care of the server side of things. I.e., it can internally rewrite /aboutus to /code/aboutus.html.
You still have to update the link in your HTML yourself.
Change
<a href=“/code/aboutus.html”>About us</a> to <a href=“/aboutus”>About us</a>

I would also like to suggest some slight changes to your .htaccess


RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?aboutus/?$ /code/aboutus.html [L]
  • Remove [NC], not needed (only need when checking information that are case sensitive, folders are not)
  • Add /? at the beginning of the RewriteRule, to make it compatible with Apache 1.x might you ever need it
  • Prepended a / to code/aboutus.html, to make it more clear where it is, and prevent possible problems with this later
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ScallioXTX

Thanks alot for the feedback, it works. Have a blessed day