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I have some URLs which are now 404 due to site upgrade.
I want all URLs starting with www.example.com/archives/* to point to www.example.com/news (notice that after archives there is a wildcard char).
Can someone here please help me with the code for .htaccess rules?
I assume you want to redirect permanently:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/archives/.* http://www.example.com/news
I've placed this rule in www.tariffplansindia.com test it there.
Here is another:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com/archives [NC]
RewriteRule ^archives/(.*) http://example.com/news [R=301,L]
I've placed this rule in www.rtidiary.org test it there.
To learn about .htaccess writing rules you can refer the official link of
Apache Module mod_rewrite: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html.
And for URL rewriting guide: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html.
