Redirect all pages within subdirectory to new page

Question

After redoing my webshop, I need to redirect every URL within a certain directoy to a new page.

All URLs beginning ith example.com/shop/... should be redirected to the page located at example.com/products/.

I'm using this wordpress plugin for redirections, but I don't know if it can handle it or I need to edit the htaccess file or something.

.htaccess:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^shop/ /products/ [R=302,L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Answer 1

That WordPress plugin should be able to handle this, but otherwise it's just a one-liner in .htaccess (which will also be more efficient):

RewriteRule ^shop/ /products/ [R=302,L]

The above directive should go after the RewriteEngine and RewriteBase directives but before any other WordPress stuff.

This redirects /shop/<anything> to /products/.

Change the 302 (temporary) redirect to 301 (permanent) when you are sure it's working OK. Temporary redirects are easier to test since they are not cached by the browser.