How to rediret example.com/home/post-title to example.com/post-title using htaccess?

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Hello,

Is there any way to redirect all urls like [noparse]example.com/home/post-title[/noparse] to [noparse]example.com/post-title[/noparse]? using htaccess or in any means?

Background:
I’ve been managing a portal for my old school and it’s url is something like [noparse]example.com/home/[/noparse]. Now I’ve removed that “/home” and made it simply example.com. for this I’ve re uploaded all my files in “/home” directory to root directory of example.com.

But what my problem is, my school website is linked and referenced widely. Since current site url is like [noparse]example.com/post-title[/noparse], old urls like [noparse]example.com/home/post-title[/noparse] will output 404 error and thus old referenced article will be unavailable.

Is there any way to redirect all urls like [noparse]example.com/home/post-title[/noparse] to [noparse]example.com/post-title[/noparse]? using htaccess or in any means?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

_NM

2

Hi, and welcome to SitePoint :wave:

So, if I get this correctly you want every request that starts with /home/ to be redirected to the URL with /home/, so /home/whatever should just become /whatever, right?

If so, place this in a .htaccess file in the root directory of the website:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^home/(.*)$ $1 [L,R=301]

That is for Apache 2.x. If you’re on Apache 1.x change ^home to ^/home

:slight_smile:

3

Hi thanks for you quick reply.

but when i tried this, that makes some duplication in the url
for example: when i access the url [noparse]example.com/portal/post-title[/noparse] (after adding RewriteRule ^portal/(.*)$ $1 [L,R=301]) it goes to [noparse]example.com/hsphere/local/home/user/example.com/post-title[/noparse]. :confused:

One thing hopeful is that, i could see the “/portal” part is removed from url.

my htaccess file is copied below (Im using Drupal cms for this portal)


AddHandler phpini-cgi .php .htm
Action phpini-cgi /cgi-bin/php5-custom-ini.cgi

<FilesMatch "\\.(engine|inc|info|install|module|profile|test|po|sh|.*sql|theme|tpl(\\.php)?|xtmpl|svn-base)$|^(code-style\\.pl|Entries.*|Repository|Root|Tag|Template|all-wcprops|entries|format)$">
  Order allow,deny
</FilesMatch>

Options -Indexes

Options +FollowSymLinks

<Files favicon.ico>
  ErrorDocument 404 "The requested file favicon.ico was not found.
</Files>

DirectoryIndex index.php
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php


# PHP 4, Apache 1.
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
  php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
  php_value register_globals                0
  php_value session.auto_start              0
  php_value mbstring.http_input             pass
  php_value mbstring.http_output            pass
  php_value mbstring.encoding_translation   0
</IfModule>

# PHP 4, Apache 2.
<IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
  php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
  php_value register_globals                0
  php_value session.auto_start              0
  php_value mbstring.http_input             pass
  php_value mbstring.http_output            pass
  php_value mbstring.encoding_translation   0
</IfModule>

# PHP 5, Apache 1 and 2.
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
  php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
  php_value register_globals                0
  php_value session.auto_start              0
  php_value mbstring.http_input             pass
  php_value mbstring.http_output            pass
  php_value mbstring.encoding_translation   0
</IfModule>


<IfModule mod_expires.c>

  ExpiresActive On
  ExpiresDefault A1209600
  ExpiresByType text/html A1
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule ^portal/(.*)$ $1 [L,R=301]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

# $Id: .htaccess,v 1.90.2.3 2008/12/10 20:04:08 goba Exp $

any suggestions?

thanks again

_NM

4

Replace $1 with /$1

And clean your browser’s cache before you try again; browsers cache 301 redirects …

PS. If that doesn’t work put the complete URL in the rule:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^home/(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

That will definitely work :slight_smile:

5

Yeah! wonderfully it’s working! I thought I was far away from the solution. thanks a lot Lol… :lol: I’ve got it resolved quick!

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