301 Redirect Question

**Doolally** · 13 February 2016, 8:35 am

Can anyone explain how to redirect all files in a certain directory to a single, alternative page, using 301 Redirect?

I was to delete a section of a site of mine and make all visitors trying to access any of those pages, currently within a certain directory, redirect to a different landing page.

**dfiocch** · 13 February 2016, 8:56 am

You can do it through your .htaccess file.

First of all, make sure your Rewrite engine is set to on:

Code:

RewriteEngine on

Then, after this line, you can do:

Code:

RewriteRule ^sectiontobemoved/ /landig-page.html [R=301,L]

**Doolally** · 13 February 2016, 2:19 pm

Thanks!!

Didn't quite work for me but sent me in the right direction. The code that actually worked for me was:

ReWriteRule ^sectiontobemoved/.*$ /landingpage.html [R=301,L]

**dfiocch** · 13 February 2016, 6:28 pm

My fault, sorry. Forgot the ".*$" 'wildcard'.
In some cases (as yours) you need to specify "also files contained in", so ".*$".

I'm glad it works

**TheGooner** · 13 February 2016, 6:46 pm

Thanks for the discussion guys - that saved me a couple of hours research later on today
Much appreciated

**mickekneg** · 15 February 2016, 3:34 am

If you are running wordpress, there are plugins for 301 redirects that are fairly easy to use as well.

Regards

**universal4** · 15 February 2016, 4:16 pm

Using a plugin to do redirects that can be much faster in htaccess adds more overhead than necessary.

Rick
Universal4

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