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stefanluk
stefanluk

Reputation: 141

htaccess redirect folder except 1 subfolder

On my, I want to redirect everything that comes after www.mysite.nl/news/ back to www.mysite.nl/news, except for www.mysite.nl/news/page (and everything that comes after /page)

How do I do such thing with .htaccess?

EDIT: I'm using these rules:

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^news/page.*$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^news/.+ news/ [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 81

Answers (2)

Paul Gregory
Paul Gregory

Reputation: 1753

First run a rewrite rule for the subfolder you wish to exclude - /news/page - first.

Use - to mean "don't redirect" and [L] for "Last thing, stop now if you match".

Or, if you want it to run through WordPress, use index.php

Then redirect URLs that start /news/

This way, the excluded subfolder will not reach the redirect rule.

So:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^news/page.*$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^news/.+ news/ [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

Use .+ to mean one or more any-character instead of .* which means any or none any-character, to avoid redirecting news/ to news/.

Upvotes: 1

Howli
Howli

Reputation: 12469

This should work for you:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/news/page.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/news
RewriteRule / http://mysite.nl/news [R=301,L]

This will redirect everything but the /news or news/page to the /news folder.

Upvotes: 0

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