Can't quite figure this out, so thought I'd ask one of the 301 gurus here ~

What is the proper way to redirect all the pages in a particular
subdirectory to the homepage using a 301 without doing a 301 for each page
separately?

For instance, every page in
http://www.example.com/something/ would redirect to http://www.example.com
(where one would find a note that the /something/ part of the site
unfortunately no longer exists).

I tried this:

RedirectPermanent /something/ http://www.example.com/

and it works perfectly when someone types in
http://www.example.com/something - it redirects to http://www.example.com

But when someone goes to
http://www.example.com/something/particularpage.html it redirects to
www.example.com/particularpage.html when I want it just to redirect to
http://www.example.com

I know I can do a separate 301 for each page in the /something/ directory -
but that would take a lot of time & space, so I'm hoping there's a more
elegant solution.

Sure there's something elementary I'm missing - hoping someone can set me
straight.

Thanks!
Denise

"Denise" <dionyza@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Can't quite figure this out, so thought I'd ask one of the 301 gurus
> here ~
>
> What is the proper way to redirect all the pages in a particular
> subdirectory to the homepage using a 301 without doing a 301 for each
> page separately?
>
> For instance, every page in
> http://www.example.com/something/ would redirect to
> http://www.example.com (where one would find a note that the
> /something/ part of the site unfortunately no longer exists).
>
> I tried this:
>
> RedirectPermanent /something/ http://www.example.com/
>
> and it works perfectly when someone types in
> http://www.example.com/something - it redirects to
> http://www.example.com

Probably it first redirects to /something/ and then to
http://www.example.com/ :-D

Anyway (untested):


RedirectMatch permanent /something/.* http://www.example.com/


See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod...#redirectmatch

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"John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
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Denise wrote: >
>> Can't quite figure this out, so thought I'd ask one of the 301 gurus
>> here ~
>>
>> What is the proper way to redirect all the pages in a particular
>> subdirectory to the homepage using a 301 without doing a 301 for each
>> page separately?
>>
>> For instance, every page in
>> http://www.example.com/something/ would redirect to
>> http://www.example.com (where one would find a note that the
>> /something/ part of the site unfortunately no longer exists).
>>
>> I tried this:
>>
>> RedirectPermanent /something/ http://www.example.com/
>>
>> and it works perfectly when someone types in
>> http://www.example.com/something - it redirects to
>> http://www.example.com
>
> Probably it first redirects to /something/ and then to
> http://www.example.com/ :-D

Yep! :-) That's what I meant, all right.

> Anyway (untested):
> RedirectMatch permanent /something/.* http://www.example.com/

Thanks so much. It works perfectly!

> See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod...#redirectmatch

This is very interesting. I didn't know about (had never heard of)
RedirectMatch before. It's really going to come in handy; I can think of at
least one more situation where I can use it.

Thanks again, John! Somehow I just knew that it would be you that came to my
rescue.

cheers & gracias!
Denise

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>
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On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:14:34 GMT, "Denise" <dionyza@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Thanks again, John! Somehow I just knew that it would be you that came to my
>rescue.


John's good like that.

You could say he is the Perl in our oyster.
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> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:14:34 GMT, Denise wrote:
>
>>Thanks again, John! Somehow I just knew that it would be you that came to
>>my
>>rescue.
>
>
> John's good like that.
>
> You could say he is the Perl in our oyster.

very clever, Paul!

Denise

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On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:21:42 GMT, "Denise" <dionyza@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>"Paul" <lamewolf2004[REMOVE]@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:hlbce2hki3id5qnrt1issvubim4dgubh7l@4ax.com.. .
>> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:14:34 GMT, Denise wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks again, John! Somehow I just knew that it would be you that came to
>>>my
>>>rescue.
>>
>>
>> John's good like that.
>>
>> You could say he is the Perl in our oyster.
>
>very clever, Paul!
>
>Denise
>

He's the Paul in our oyster.

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On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:21:42 GMT, "Denise" <dionyza@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>"Paul" <lamewolf2004[REMOVE]@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:hlbce2hki3id5qnrt1issvubim4dgubh7l@4ax.com.. .
>> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:14:34 GMT, Denise wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks again, John! Somehow I just knew that it would be you that came to
>>>my
>>>rescue.
>>
>>
>> John's good like that.
>>
>> You could say he is the Perl in our oyster.
>
>very clever, Paul!
>
>Denise

I do try

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On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:35:13 GMT, Big Bill <kruse@cityscape.co.uk>
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>He's the Paul in our oyster.
>
>BB
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