htaccess to multiple folders

[clemente]

I have written a rule that if a file doesn't exist, then look for it in "sub1" folder, for example:

when someone goes to www.example.com/file15 it will rewrite to -> www.example.com/sub1/file15, and it works

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ sub1/$1 [QSA]

But there are more folders than sub1, so if a "file15" doesn't exist in sub1, then look for it in folder sub2, and if it's not in sub2, then rewrite to sub3.

I tried this but doesn't work:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ sub1/$1 [QSA]

RewriteCond sub1/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond sub1/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ sub2/$1 [QSA]

[requinix]

This isn't good.

Why do you have so many subdirectories? Why are you not using the correct URL?

[clemente]

There is only few subdirectories, I want URL to be shorter.

Edited November 26, 2019 by clemente

[clemente]

Okay will just stick to /sub/ folders, can close this

[benanamen]

8 hours ago, clemente said:

I want URL to be shorter

It may be beyond your skills, but If that is the goal you can write a router that will call whatever file you want regardless of the name and URL. Look into MVC design.

[requinix]

10 hours ago, clemente said:

There is only few subdirectories, I want URL to be shorter.

Then don't put the files into subdirectories.

What I'm trying to understand is why you want everything to look and act a certain way but weren't making it actually be that way.

[clemente]

There are subdirectories because there are different categories, they need to be seperated for automating things, just without the /sub1/ URL looks nicer.

Figured it out, this did the job:
RewriteCond  %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/sub1/%{REQUEST_URI}/index.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ sub1/$1 [L]
RewriteCond  %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/sub2/%{REQUEST_URI}/index.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ sub2/$1 [L]