Moving site - make all links 301 on same tld

Question

Customer had website in Joomla like this:

• www.example.com/home/
• www.domainA.com/home/aboutus
• www.domainA.com/home/blog

Not sure why it was made this way with /home as default.

Anyway I moved the site and domain to new hosting and now I have lost /home. Meaning that all the links are gone. Now I have:

• www.domainA.com
• www.domainA.com/aboutus
• www.domainA.com/blog

I would like to to redirect everything that started with /home to exact same links but without /home with 301 or whatever solution is best.

I guess it should be possible with webmaster tools and somehow in .htaccess so that users or links present on web also get redirected immediately ?

Answer 1

In your root .htaccess, using mod_alias:

Redirect 301 /home /

However, if you are already using mod_rewrite (very likely that you are if this is still a Joomla site) then you should use mod_rewrite:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^home/(.*) /$1 [R=301,L]

Nothing else to do in Google Search Console (formerly known as "Google Webmaster Tools").