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Developers use to hide directory name from public so that bots or hacker won't find their website template/modules by running directory structure finding scripts. Once your website is beta ready & before you submit the website to search engines, you can hide your directory structures using htaccess file, so the browsers & visitors see masked directory name rather real directory name. This is one of the best security for your application based websites. Below we will try to mask: /template/mytemplate/media/css to /css using code below:

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase / 
RewriteRule ^css/(.+) /template/mytemplate/media/css/$1 [L,QSA]
 

You can keep on adding new lines to hide/mask any directory you want from public. Remember, we are using .htaccess file which is very sensitive about its rules & placement. Be sure to use a single .htaccess at root dir for each & every directory structures inside it.