Can Anyone Help with Creating an Alias Using htaccess?

[Furious]

I am hoping to find someone that can help me with setting up an alias using htaccess.
I'd even be happy to make a donation for your time using Paypal.

I know a little about html and css but practically nothing about htaccess files.
After spending 3 frustrating days googling and trying to create an alias using htaccess I am ready for some help.

So here is what I am working with.
I have a Synology network attached storage unit (NAS) that I am hosting from.
The NAS is using Apache to serve up the websites.
Below is my folder structure and URLs to access these folders:

/volume1/web (mydomain.com)
/volume1/web/forums (mydomain.com/forums)
/volume1/web/example/www (mydomain.com/example/www)


What I am wanting to do is to be able to call "mydomain.com/example" and have Apache serve up the contents of "/volume1/web/example/www", or in other words hide the "www" sub-folder from the URL.

Anyone care to take a crack at this before my head explodes from fiddling with it? lol

[Furious]

With a little dumb luck I managed to get this partially working.
I created an .htaccess file in the "/volume1/web/example" folder, inside the .htaccess file I used:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /example/www/$1 [L]


Now when I make the URL call "http://mydomain.com/example" it is correctly showing me the index.php page of the "www" folder (/volume1/web/example/www).
Problem now is that all links on this page are adding "/www/" back in the URL.
Example: Clicking on "Login" goes to "http://mydomain.com/example/www/login"

I'll keep poking at it however I feel lucky to have made it this far.
If anyone can be of any help I would greatly appreciate it.

[chanw4]

I think what you need to do is to create virtual directory for the server not using the REWRITE RULE

EDIT: Nevermind the above answer
What you did in your second post is to redirect all the url that matchs the regex and append it to the end of /example/www/ which im surprise it works when you put http://mydomain.com/example since that will rewrite it to http://mydomain.com/example/www/example

For your situation, i think mod_proxy would be better solution.
ProxyRequests off
ProxyPass /example/ http://mydomain.com/example/www/

You also need an rewrite rule to rewrite the url /example to add the trailing '/' to the url i think. And obviously, you need to load the module in your apache config file. mod_proxy is not loaded by default i think.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current...d_rewrite.html

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html

[Furious]

Thanks for your reply chanw4.

I guess I forgot to update this post.
I ended up just creating a virtual host in Apache and pointing a sub domain to it, I couldn't figure out any other method.
The only real problem I have using the virtual host is when ever I update the firmware on my NAS (which is what I'm hosting from) I have to re-create the virtual host as it gets deleted.
I may have that problem fixed though, won't know for sure until the next firmware update comes around.