I was serving static content within a drupal installation, which became a huge nightmare when doing upgrades. So, I decided, I should just create a symbolic link to a folder outside the installation and route the traffic via mod_rewrite rules.
I first created a folder called "/var/www/site_files" and then symlinked to it from "/var/www/html/site_files". This way, I just have to recreate one single symbolic link after doing the upgrades.
With the below rules, I was able to maintain the links to the existing pages.
## BEGIN: site_files ##
# Redirect to the homepage if site_files is being called
RewriteRule ^site_files/?$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/ [L,R=301]
# Apped / at the end of url, if directory is being called without /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/site_files%{REQUEST_URI} -d
RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$ /$1/ [R=301,L]
# Get directory or file if exists in site_files directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/site_files%{REQUEST_URI} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/site_files%{REQUEST_URI} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ site_files/$1 [L]
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