Modify url withut changing the code

I want to 开发者_如何学Cchange my current url to a modified one.

Suppose my current url is

www.abc.com/xyz/location.htm

I want it to change to

www.abc.com/location.htm

please suggest a suitable way.... Thanks in advance

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If you are running Apache servers, I'd suggest using mod_rewrite.

In that case you should have something like this in your .htaccess -file at the top level of your server root:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule  ^abc.com/xyz/(.*)$  <your_root_directory>/$1