.htaccess to cloak a folder

[EdenWeb]

I've installed a CMS in a folder on a client's site and naturally enough the folder name forms part of the URL. Would it be possible to skip or hide that folder in the URL via .htaccess ?

IE Go from

mydomain.com/cms-install-folder/service/page.htm

into

mydomain.com/cms-folder/service/page.htm

 

[mneylon]

If it's running on Apache you *could* use mod_rewrite to magically replace all instances of "cms-install" with "cms-folder" or whatever ..

 

[Forbairt]

Would something like

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/$ /cms-install-folder/

do the job in the root folder ?

 

[EdenWeb]

Thanks for getting back to me. Looks like .htaccess trickery will cause too many problems. I can install and build in a test folder
on the server and then drag the files onto the root when done. Just changing some config paths will sort my problem.

 

[webangel_ie]

in htaccess you can put htaccess in the folder in question which contains :
Deny from all