How to remove directory name from URL?

Question

htaccess

Tell me , there is a url like:
www.site.com/pages/... , where "..." are the names of the pages. How to remove /pages /

from the url via htaccess and make links like: www.site.com/... , but the pages will be in pages

Answer 1

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} " /pages(/\S*)"
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages/$1 -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /pages/$1 [L]