How to redirect HTACCESS changes to now allow subdirectory URL?

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I was successfully able to change my .htaccess file to change the url to my website files, removing the access folder.
SITEMAP

index.php
/access
    -dashboard.php
    -posts.php
    -account.php

Old URL : mywebsite.com/access/dashboard.php
New URL: mywebsite.com/dashboard.php
This is all working perfectly, the only issue is that, I can still access my files from the old url. I would like to redirect that url to the new one so that it is not used anymore. How can I do this?
Here is my current .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/access/$1.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ access/$1.php [L,NC]
.htaccess mod-rewrite apache
1 Answers

Insert this rule just below RewriteBase / line:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+access/(\S*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [R=301,L,NE]

This will match /access/<anything> from raw Apache request and redirect to a URL without /access.

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