How to change URL? htaccess

Question

What I have

newsy/czytaj/items/odbierz-250zl-na-reklame.html

This is what I would have

newsy/odbierz-250zl-na-reklame.html

Answer 1

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^newsy/([^\./]+)\.html /newsy/czytaj/items/$1.html [L]

This will rewrite anything that starts with newsy and add a /czytaj/items between it and the html file.

Answer 2

In principle you just create a corresponding rewrite rule:

RewriteRule ^newsy/czytaj/items/(.+) /newsy/$1 [L]

It is crucial not to omit [L]flag. Otherwise your rewrite engine may get stuck in an endless loop. Also in the beginning of the .htaccessfile remember to enable mod_rewrite with:

RewriteEngine On

For more help on mod_rewrite, I recommend checking out mod_rewrite-cheatsheet. For an exhaustive URl Rewriting Guide see a corresponding page from Apache 2.0 Documentation.