Need help writing .htaccess / Apache rule

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.