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apachemod-rewrite
Micah Sharp
Micah Sharp

Reputation: 25

Redirecting anything in a subdirectory to an absolute directory path

Using a RewriteRule I'm trying to redirect every url in a subdirectory to another subdirectory as an absolute path, trimming anything that came after the first directory. Example:

www.domain.com/store/search
www.domain.com/store/search?search=some_term

etc.

all need to go to

www.domain.com/newdir/

unfortunately the results I am seeing are like such:

www.domain.com/store/newdir/
www.domain.com/store/newdir/?search=some_term

and so on. I am using this command currently:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule search(.*) newdir/ [R=301,NC,L]

How can I redirect anything in /store/search to just simply /newdir, trimming anything that comes after the word "search"? Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 780

Answers (1)

sdexp
sdexp

Reputation: 776

If the .htaccess is in the root directory you can do something like this

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^store/search(.*)?$ ./newdir/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

Or if the .htaccess is in the "store" directory you could do this...

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^search(.*)?$ http://www.domain.com/newdir/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

The above is to keep the query strings, if you want to just redirect to the directory remove the $1

Upvotes: 1

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