I have a pesky WordPress site, installed in a directory called /w/ — in which cannot be rebuilt or migrated to a different location — YES, I know basically what I am asking and seeking is a hack, but that is all time affords and is actually something I’m curious about anyway.
If website is http://www.example.com/w/ — how can I either a.) alter / add to the WordPress default htaccess file or b.) maybe add something in PHP to the functions file? Or a anything else similar to uploading a script or PHP snippet to the server? – to remove or hide the /w/?
Problem is — before you get all http://codex.wordpress.org/ on me; this particular website has so many customizations, plugins, etc — that most options listed there or elsewhere cause more problems (already tried several, took hours to revert back), because it just moves part of the website causing more issues in the long run — so it’s either this hack or a complete re installation rebuild, which I can’t do due time.
Update – Cue Violin, nothing works
Tried @David’s technique by creating new .htaccess file in root directory behind /w/ and nothing occurred, page down in Chrome, Firefox reports ‘Server attempting to redirect in a way which will never complete’)
RedirectMatch 301 ^/w/(.*)$ http://www.tonsofbeers.com/$1
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
How about RedirectMatch?
EDIT:
If you want to redirect all files, not just the root:
EDIT 2:
Or using rewrite: