301 Redirect Entire Directory And Sub Dirs

[mdedens]

Hi,

 

I setup a 301 redirect for a directory that contained numerous subdirectories, (all got indexed by Google accidentally.)

 

Here is an example of the code:

 

>redirect 301 /olddir http://www.****/index.php

 

However if I go to a link like this:

>http://www.****/olddir/album01/blahblah

 

It ends up going here:

>http://www.****/index.php/album01/blahblah

 

I don't know the names of all the subdirectories, there are hundreds too. So I was wondering if there is a way to include all subdirectories in 1 line of code.

 

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

oye, sorry about the URLs, i forgot those are probably not allowed... trying to turn them off... ok got it.

Edited January 18, 2007 by mdedens

[TCH-Andy]

Do you have any other code in your .htaccess that is messing things up ?

[mdedens]

Possibly... I have this line above it:

(my old site had an index.shtml page, but the new one is .php)

 

>redirect 301 /index.shtml http://www.****.com/index.php

 

and this below it, for image protection and redirecting the non-www domain:

 

>Options +FollowSymLinks 
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_Host} ^****.com [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.****.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://****.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://****.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.****.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.****.com [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]

 

Sorry I shoulda posted this in the first place.

 

(not sure if that bottom part is the most efficient way to redirect and image protect, i keep seeing many different ways and don't know what's best)

Edited January 18, 2007 by mdedens

[click]

Try:

 

>redirectmatch 301 /olddir/.* http://www.****/index.php

[mdedens]

Thank you click, works perfectly now.

Edited January 19, 2007 by mdedens