apache.htaccess

Redirecting all sub-sub pages to another subpage using htaccess

I've a older site running in Apache Server which is already indexed in Google. I wish to redirect all those indexed links to my new site (As the older pages are not existing any more.)

So i wish to redirect all my sub-sub pages to my new root page

I've pages like follows

http://itdost.com/answer-now/Aerobics
http://itdost.com/answer-now/HTML
http://itdost.com/answer-now/Culture

I use the following redirect code for each one

Redirect 301 /answer-now/Engineering http://www.itdost.com/questions/
Redirect 301 /answer-now/Food http://www.itdost.com/questions/
Redirect 301 /answer-now/ASP http://www.itdost.com/questions/

But as the site structure is big, i wish to do it in a single line instead of writing a line for each redirect

Some thing like the following.

Redirect 301 /answer-now/% http://www.itdost.com/questions/

But the above code does not seems to work

Solution

  • In order to use regex better to use mod_rewrite which is more powerful than mod_alias.

    Enable mod_rewrite and .htaccess through httpd.conf and then put this code in your .htaccess under DOCUMENT_ROOT directory:

    Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^answer-now(/.*|)$ http://www.itdost.com/questions/? [L,NC,R=301]