Search and remove the specific string from url using .htaccess rewrite - .htaccess

Question

Using .htaccess apache rewrite I'm looking to remove subfolder/substring from the my url. For now it looks like:
www.domain.com/store/products.php`
and I want to change it to:
www.domain.com/products.php
How can i do it using .htaccess apache rewrite?

Answer 1

You can do that with the root .htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^store/(.*) /$1 [R=302,L]
Change [R=302] for [R=301] when test work well.

Answer 2

You need mod_rewrite. A rule will be something like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /myapp/
RewriteRule ^/store/products\.php$ /products.php
Or, for many different files, e.g. products.php, places.php, blablabla.php:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /myapp/
RewriteRule ^/store/([a-z]+)\.php$ /$1.php
That depends on what URLs you want to rewrite. You should read the docs.
All-matching .htaccess rule
Also, I'd suggest you to use the following catch all URLs pattern. It will redirect any path to index.php. This is widely used in a lot of CMS systems to give you ability to perform dynamic routing with PHP:
.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?path=$1 [L,QS
index.php
<?php
$path = isset($_GET['path']) ? explode('/', $_GET['path']) : array();
// If you navigate to /foo/bar/dead/beef, yur $path var will be like:
// $path == array ( 0 => 'foo', 1 => 'bar', 2 => 'dead', 3 => 'beef' );
?>