I need to redirect an entire directory, the subs and all pages.

**colbyt** · 04-05-2008, 04:34 PM

I want to change scripts on an older site of mine. Yahoo has 2400 indexed pages. How they managed that I am not sure since there are only a little over 500 entries in the database.

I wanted to take the easy way out and just redirect the entire directory to the new directory so that no matter what page was requested within that directory the redirection to a single page happens.

I use cPanel and is does not seem to allow that. I am not afraid to edit the .htaccess file as long as I know what to put in there.

Is there any way to make this happen?

**SSANZ** · 04-07-2008, 07:57 AM

Ok, so you want to redirect all hits to a single folder to a new URL correct?

Why not use a index PHP redirect via header get or include?

:S

**AHelpingHand** · 04-07-2008, 05:58 PM

This could easily happen even if you have 500 pages in your database if you are using links to show pages differently as order by date, rating, author ...etc

To redirect add those lines to your .htaccess file after changing them with you values:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
(Required only once so if they are in your .htaccess file don't add them again)

Redirect 301 http://www.oldsite/olddir/ http://www.newsite/newdir/newpage.html

**colbyt** · 04-10-2008, 08:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AHelpingHand

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

Redirect 301 http://www.oldsite/olddir/ http://www.newsite/newdir/newpage.html

That is the first thing I tried. It does a beautiful job as alway of redirecting all the requests mysite.com/olddir/ when it is the index page requested.

Is does not however refer any requests that include a file name such as mysite/olddir/page.php

Any more suggestions? I need to resolve this.

**colbyt** · 04-10-2008, 06:44 PM

Problem is resolved.

I am going to post a follow-up message to this post because as I continued to search I noticed in was near the top of the google results and other may be looking for the same answer.

I created this redirect using cPanel10 from the control panel. cPanel wrote something wierd to the .htaccess, which I wish I had copied before I changed it.

Once I manually changed the syntax in the .htaccess file to:

Quote:

RedirectMatch permanent /olddirectoryname http://mysite.com/filenameifdesired

Everything worked as it should. Both the directory and any file that is called in that directory are now forwarded as desired.

Having used cPanel many times to set redirects I really can not explain why this happened.