How to make subdirectory the document root of a web domain or localhost

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Published on 2012-04-15T07:51:25Z Indexed on 2012/04/15 11:34 UTC
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I have a subdirectory abc in the document root /var/www/html

I want to be able to run any file any_file.html within the subdirectory by typing in the browser:

localhost/any_file instead of localhost/abc/any_file.html or my_domain.com/any_file instead of my_domain.com/abc/any_file.html

I tried writing in httpd.conf:

<Directory "/var/www/html/abc">
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule %{REQUEST_FILENAME} %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html
</Directory>

But it doesn't work. Options FollowSymLinks is activated in <Directory> so I believe I would not need to write this again. Does anyone knows why and how to solve it? Thanks.

Update: I have another subdirectory efg which I need to be able to access through localhost.

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