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odd_duck
odd_duck

Reputation: 4101

htaccess - redirect a directory including the index page

I am updating a website and having updated a directory name, I need to update all links for the old directory named blog to the newly named press

I have tried this:

RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)$ /press/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

Which works perfect for any url's within that directory. i.e 

website-url.com/blog/post-1

Goes too

website-url.com/press/post-1

However the blog index page still doesn't. I instead get a 404 when going to:

website-url.com/blog

If I have a trailing slash, it does work. Just not without. I know I can use an absolute path redirect like so:

Redirect 301 /blog http://www.website-url.com/press

But the domain could change so I want to keep the path relative / dynamic for this.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 13

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 784878

Have your rule like this:

RewriteRule ^blog(/.*)?$ /press$1 [R=301,NC,L]

This will match /blog also as /.* part is optional match.

Upvotes: 1

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