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PaulAdamDavis
PaulAdamDavis

Reputation: 1584

Redirect site with .htaccess but exclude one folder

I want to 301 redirect an entire website, but exclude everything in a folder called /uploads which exists in the /root directory.

I have googled for this, but didn't come up with anything, or I didn't think what I saw was right.

Can we crack this?

Upvotes: 80

Views: 116657

Answers (4)

Amit Verma
Amit Verma

Reputation: 41249

A mod-alias based solution

Redirect all except a specific folder

Add the following line to your root/.htaccess :

RedirectMatch 301 ^/((?!uploads).*)$ http://newdomain.com/$1

This will redirect all pages (excluding /uploads/*) from your old domain to the newdomain.

Upvotes: 12

Dominic Rodger
Dominic Rodger

Reputation: 99841

I think you want this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/uploads/
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

If you get 500 Internal Error then double-check that you have a space between } and ! on the second line.

Upvotes: 42

PseudoNinja
PseudoNinja

Reputation: 2856

Simple answer I just stumbled upon myself.

At the top before any other calls add the following

RewriteRule ^(uploads) - [L]

Upvotes: 73

Gumbo
Gumbo

Reputation: 655845

Try this mod_rewrite rule:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule !^uploads($|/) http://example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

This rule does match any URL path that does not begin with either /uploads or /uploads/ (leading / is missing in the pattern due to the path prefix removal when used in .htaccess files) and redirects the request to the corresponding path at example.com.

Upvotes: 96

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