How to Redirect all subdirectory pages to another?

Question

Due to duplicate content issue, I want to redirect all pages of /articles/* to newly created sub directory /article/*.

How do I redirect all pages of /articles to /article using .htaccess file?

Answer 1

Not sure how this would resolve "duplicate content issues", but anyway...

Redirect 302 /articles/ /article/

The mod_alias Redirect directive is prefix-matching, so the above matches /articles/<anything> and redirects to /article/<anything> - passing on the <anything> part.

This is naturally a 302 (temporary) redirect.

However, if you have other (particularly mod_rewrite) directives in your .htaccess then you may need to change this. The order is also important.

Reference:

• https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_alias.html#redirect