301 redirect for entire folder including all files

Server Config
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I’m trying to redirect an entire sub-folder and all the files in it to my home page. So I have a folder called /OLD/ and want any request for a file in that folder to go to http://example.com

I’m not redirecting to the same file in a new location. I just want to direct all to the home page. So http://example.com/OLD/foo.html would not go to http://example.com/foo.html. It would just go to http://example.com

I’ve added the following line to my .htaccess

redirect 301 /OLD/ http://example.com

This works only for the base sub folder, but not individual files in it. So http://example.com/OLD/ gets redirected fine, but http://example.com/OLD/foo.htm doesn’t.

I’ve tried a few variations, but they don’t work:

redirect 301 ^/OLD/?(.*) http://example.com
redirect 301 ^/OLD/ http://example.com

Thanks for any help.

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Ahhhrrrggg… You always find the answer right after you ask the question. :blush: This one works:

redirectMatch 301 ^/OLD/ http://example.com

3

This also works and it faster because it doesn’t need to fire up the regex engine:

Redirect /OLD/ [noparse]http://example.com/[/noparse]

:slight_smile:

4

But isn’t it a good idea to label the redirect as 301 for search engines?

5

And actually that doesn’t work (for me at least). Individual files in the sub folder don’t get stripped correctly. It redirects [B][noparse]http://example.com/OLD/foo.htm[/noparse][/B] to [B][noparse]http://example.comfoo.htm/[/noparse][/B]

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Using the example at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html#redirect:

Redirect 301 /OLD http://example.com/

(although the redirection may not need the trailing /).

Regards,

DK

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That also doesn’t work. http://example.com/OLD/foo.htm redirects to http://example.com/foo.htm

Anyway, I show the code that worked in my 2nd post above. Thanks for the other suggestions, but I have what works for me now.