Apache2 redirect all sub-directories to index.html of main directory?

Question

I want to put an .htaccess file in a directory of my website. For this purpose in:

www.mysite.com/dir/

Then I want anything after /dir/ to direct to /dir/index.html but still display the original URL in the browser. So for example:

www.mysite.com/dir/foo/bar -> www.mysite/dir/index.html

So in essence I want the browser to go to index.html but display the original URL Could this be done with a reverse proxy?

You could just URL Rewrite in your Htacces file: addedbytes.com/articles/for-beginners/… alternatively if you are using Cpanel you can just do this in your redirection settings.
I think this is what you are looking for: RewriteRule ^dir/.*$ index.html [NC,L] Sorry, I'm new at this. Just see if that helps.
@Sam that won't work because I want the URL in the browser to stay the same but the browser to display content from index.html

Eric Brandel · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-01 18:31:47Z

up vote 1 down vote accepted

Sam's second comment was pretty close. This should work:

RewriteRule ^dir/(.*)   dir/index.html [NC,L]

answered Jan 1 at 18:31

Eric Brandel
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	But then won't that change the URL displayed in the browser to index.html? I wan't it to display the same URL, the one before the redirect – DontTurnAround Jan 1 at 21:36
	Nope. It's not doing a redirect. That would look like: RewriteRule ^dir/(.*) dir/index.html [R=301,L] - The R=301 is a 301 Redirect. – Eric Brandel Jan 1 at 21:38
	Thank you so much! Once I put a RewriteEngine On statement before that it worked perfectly! – DontTurnAround Jan 1 at 23:12

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