url-rewrite omit subdirectory

Question

I have a subdirectory with html files in it.
domain.com/sub/file.html

I would like to rwerite the url of any files viewed in this one directory to be seen as:
domain.com/file

The following rule works great to hide the .html part in the site in any and all directories visited.

        <rules>  
            <remove name="Redirecting .html ext" />  
            <remove name="Hide .html ext" />  
            <rule name="Hide .html ext" enabled="true">  
                <match url="^(.*)" ignoreCase="true" />  
                <conditions>  
                    <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />  
                    <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />  
                    <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html" matchType="IsFile" />  
                </conditions>  
                <serverVariables />  
                <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:0}.html" />  
            </rule>	  
        </rules>		  

How would I indicate the directory /sub in a rule and hide it's .html endings?

I use this to match a directory of files to NOT hide the .html part (I need to do that on form input pages)

            <rule name="Redirecting .html ext" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">  
                <match url="^(?!_-_admin-new)(.*).html" />  
                <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">  
                    <add input="{URL}" pattern="^(.*)\.html$" />  
                </conditions>  
                <serverVariables />  
                <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}" />  
            </rule>  

Possible?

Answer 1

Hi @Rich K ,

What you can do with rewrite action is to type domain.com/sub/file in the browser to access domain.com/sub/file.html. But rewrite doesn't change the address in the browser, so if your goal is to remove part of the path from the URL, you can't use the rewrite action.

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