301 redirect entire subdirectory to a single page

ebnx · Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 21

Folks:

I'm interested in 301 redirecting all pages in a subdirectory of my website to a single page off of the root directory. To illustrate:

I want all pages in: -http://www.website.com/sub/
To be 301 redirected to: -http://www.website.com/page.html

I thought I could do it by adding the following command to my .htaccess file:

Redirect 301 /sub -http://www.website.com/page.html

But it doesn't seem to be working. Anyone have any advice on what I should be putting into my .htaccess?

The RewriteEngine is turned on, and I've been able to 301 redirect other pages in the past.

Thanks for your help!

SeO

You could use :

ebnx · Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 21

Thanks SeO!

Someone else had also suggested that I use the following in my .htaccess to achieve the same 301-redirect result:

Peter77

I think the one SeO has given you is probably more efficient since it is using the L rule ( last rule ) so that it stops searching for more to rewrite -- it doesn't go any further then it needs too... so probably saving server resources.

ebnx · Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 21

Thanks for that tip, Peter!

ebnx · Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 21

I'm encountering a strange issue with the 301 redirect.

As I said before, I wanted all pages in a specific subdirectory:

-http://www.website.com/sub/

To redirect to a specific page:

-http://www.website.com/page.html

The strange thing that is happening is that several of the pages in the subdirectory have weird php URLs like:

-http://www.website.com/sub/example.php?id=section1

And using SeO's .htaccess directive, they are being redirected/rewritten as

-http://www.website.com/page.html?id=section

Anyone have any thoughts on how I can get rid of the "?id=section1" part?

Thanks very much!

dcz

What about :

ebnx · Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 21

I found a solution from another forum: