.htaccess redirect folder to a url

Question

I'm trying to redirect a folder and all its sub files to a URL with a .htaccess file.

But

Redirect 301 /abc/cba/ http://www.aaa.com/

Will make /abc/cba/ddd/index.html redirect to http://www.aaa.com/ddd/index.html

What I want is redirect /abc/cba/ /abc/cba/ddd/index.html to http://www.aaa.com/

Could anyone help? Thanks. If anything not clear, please let me know.

I have my shared hosting server on godaddy.com and primary domain is abc.com Now I have another domain registered xyz.com on some other 3rd service not on godaddy. For this new website xyz.com I have installed wordpress in xyz directory of my godaddy hosting server. Now how do I point this xyz.com domain to my xyz directory of my hosting server by keeping abc.com website as it is? — Ruchir Shah, Nov 07 '16 at 17:23

score 44 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 30 '12 at 05:34

44

By default, Redirect sort of maps the path node to a new path node, so anything after the first path gets appended to the target URL.

Try:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/abc/cba/ http://www.aaa.com/?

Or if you'd rather use mod_rewrite instead of mod_alias:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?abc/cba/ http://www.aaa.com/? [R=301,L]

answered Jul 30 '12 at 05:34

Jon Lin

6

Just a hint: You should be really sure if you want to use `301`. Because it really can be a real **permanent** redirect ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9130422/how-long-do-browsers-cache-http-301s ). If you are not sure and want to avoid trouble in future, use `302`. Anyway advantageous in the implementation and testing phase. – Martin Schneider Jun 05 '18 at 21:04
Does case mater? Would `/abc/CBA/` get redirected to `http://www.aaa.com/?` with the provided solution or do you need to account for casing options, too? Also, what does the `?` do for us? – HPWD Aug 30 '21 at 14:58

KnightHawk · Answer 2 · 2014-05-21T16:10:43.417

10

here's another example of a mod_rewrite rule that worked for me

I wanted to redirect a sub directory to the root of the same domain.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^sub_directory/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L]
</IfModule>

edited May 21 '14 at 16:10

answered May 21 '14 at 15:45

KnightHawk

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 18 '20 at 00:03

2

I perfer the following method:

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/somedir           [NC]
 RewriteRule /(.*) http://somesite.com/lost/$1 [R=301,L]

answered Feb 18 '20 at 00:03

Kyle Coots

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 10 '18 at 15:41

I had to reroute urls from old site version to new version, so here is what I did to reroute any links from about-us/* to about-us.html

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^about-us/(.*)$ about-us.html [R=301,L]

What it doesn't do is rewrite something like domain.com/about-us/thing.html => domain.com/about-us.html .

It does work for things without extensions domain.com/about-us/something-in-url => domain.com/about-us.html

I added the lines below to redirect .jpg and .png, but it didn't work for .html, I can't find out why.

RewriteRule ^about-us/(.*).jpg about-us.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^about-us/(.*).png about-us.html [R=301,L]

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