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Sebastian Breit
Sebastian Breit

Reputation: 6159

Redirect subdomain only to root

So I have this website: www.example.com, which in the past would redirect the clients to www.example.com/subdir

Now I updated the whole site, and the subdirectory doesn't exist anymore, and I want the main domain to be the root. The problem is that many clients have cached the url with the subdomain included, so I need a redirection rule to route www.example.com/subdir to www.example.com.

I tried this:

RewriteRule ^subdir/(.*)$ $1

which works if I enter www.example.com/subdir/ with the last slash

but if I access www.example.com/subdir without last slash it won't do the job.

How can I make it work?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 95

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 784908

Change your rule to this:

RewriteRule ^subdir(?:/(.*))?$ /$1 [L,NC,R=301,NE]

It is important to use R=301 here so that all clients and search engines eventually move to new URL rather than keep using duplicate URL for the same content (bad SEO).

Upvotes: 3

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