RedirectMatch to home page?

andydoku667 · July 14, 2014, 4:07pm

Hi, I have some 404s like:

…so I’m trying to redirect all of them to the homepage using Redirect Match

…my statement:

…results in redirecting to

…which is what I’d prefer.

Can anyone guide me pls on how to tweak the statement so that it points to jist the homepage url, without any parameters added to the url?

Thanks

Jeff_Mott · July 14, 2014, 10:38pm

I haven’t tested this, but try adding a “?” at the end of the redirect URL.

If we were using rewrite rules, that would do the trick, so I’m hoping RedirectMatch works the same way.

andydoku667 · July 17, 2014, 4:54pm

hi, thanks for this, this redirects me to url

All I need now is to get rid of the question mark…any advice appreciated on this

Many thanks

Jeff_Mott · July 17, 2014, 8:04pm

Gotcha. Looks like you’ll have to switch to RewriteRule instead of RedirectMatch. Try…

[FONT=Courier New]RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^/?hab\.php$ http://www.abbeycarefoundation.com/? [R=301,L][/FONT]

andydoku667 · July 18, 2014, 10:09am

Thanks Jeff, adding this to htaccess seems to just take me back to the 404 page. Hmmm. Maybe I should try a plugin? Thanks again for your help.