Apache on Windows 2003 SP2.

Lets say I have a site that is accessible by these URL's:

http://somelocalsvr/directory
http://192.168.1.1/directory

I want to redirect all requests that come via 192.168.1.1 to a subdirectory, ie. http://192.168.1.1/directory > http://192.168.1.1/directory/subdirectory

So I have this rule:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^192.168.1.1
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/directory/subdirectory(.*)$
RewriteRule ^/directory(.*)$ /directory/subdirectory$1 [R]

This works fine, but I don't want to show /subdirectory in the URL. I want it to transparently pass the request to /directory/subdirectory, like a pass-through.

Is there any way I can achieve this?

Thanks in advance for any help...

unless yours is the first or only site on the IP. HTTP requests for the IP won't even get as far as .htaccess.

Thanks for the reply, but can you explain it a little further?

FYI at this point the rule about does work as expected, but I don't want to show the subdirectory in the resulting URL.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

unless yours is the first or only site on the IP. HTTP requests for the IP won't even get as far as .htaccess.

I think he's talking about an intranet setup -- like for users in his office. So I'm not sure if that makes a difference.