Pardon me for answering a question with a question, but is it possible
to just move the directory that you're pointing to to remove this confusion?
That is, I assume that the URL /user1 is Aliased to /home/user1/
somewhere in your configuration. Can you alias it to /home/user1/assets
instead
Hello
We are trying to create a RewriteRule that will allow us to drop a component of
the actual URL, and still reference the content deeper in the directory
structure for any number of subdirectories to that dropped component of the URL.
For example let's say the content for each account is