htaccess Redirect to Child Directory - .htaccess

I'm trying to 301 redirect to a child directory using .htaccess i.e.
Redirect 301 /parent http://example.com/parent/child/
Unfortunately this results in a redirect loop i.e.
/parent/child/child/child/child/etc.
Please could anyone point me in the right direction?


Redirect directive will match and redirect everything that starts with /parent. You need to use RedirectMatch to only redirect this specific folder:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/parent/?$ http://example.com/parent/child/
The same, but using mod_rewrite:
RewriteRule ^parent/?$ http://example.com/parent/child/ [R=301,L]
NOTES:
Place it in .htaccess in website root folder. If placed elsewhere some small tweaking may be required.

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htaccess redirect 301 and rewrite

I am trying to simplify URLs from
xyz.com/walks/walk_descrip/8010/
to
xyz.com/walk-8010
I have moved the file from the walks sub-directory to the root.
I have tried using the following in my htaccess file
Redirect 301 ^/walks/walk_descrip/(.*)/$ /walk-$1
RewriteRule ^walk-(.*)$ /walk-description.php?id=$
However this is producing URLs such as
xyz.com/walk-8010?id=8010
Where am I going wrong?
Any help would be appreciated

Redirect directive doesnt support regex. What you are looking for is RedirectMatch.
RedirectMatch 301 ^/walks/walk_descrip/(.+)$ /walk-$1

Friendly URL or url-rewriting

I am working on a site that uses such a url
www.domain.com/hotels/hotel-name
I would like visitors just to see
www.domain.com/hotel-name
This can probably be done in the .htaccess file with a rewrite condition but I don't know how.
Thank you for helping

You can use RedirectMatch directive :
Put the following Redirect above other rules in your htaccess file
RedirectMatch 301 ^/hotels/([^/]+)/?$ /$1
This example would redirect all files from the /hotels/ folder, if you want to redirect a particular file from that folder , you can use the following:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/hotels/(file_name)/?$ /$1
Now if a visiter enters www.example.com/hotels/hotel-name then will be externally redirected to www.example.com/hotel-name

Problems with htaccess Redirect (Page on one domain to same page on another)

I'm trying to redirect a few pages to a new domain and I have done this before but for some reason I can't get the code to work.
RewriteEngine On
Redirect 301 http://domain.com/page1.html http://domain2.com/page1.html
Can anyone see where I'm going wrong?

In .htaccess file the below code will ensure that all your directories and pages of your old domain will get correctly redirected to your new domain.
The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your old website
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Since you say you only want to direct a FEW of your pages and not all of them, you can do:
RewriteEngine On
Redirect /~myaccount/oldpage.html http://www.newsite.com/newpage.html
You specify the path to the page on your current server followed by the URL to redirect to.
OR you can do:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/oldpage\.html$ http://www.newsite.com/newpage.html

How to do 301 redirects with folders & subfolders?

I need to redirect all the old URLs on my site to new URLs, but am having issues. A given URL and its subfolders need redirecting to the same page.
For example, this is the first one:
redirect 301 /panache/sports-bra/ http://www.newdomain.co.uk/sports-bra.html
This works ok. However there are these size sub-pages which need to redirect to the same location:
redirect 301 /panache/sports-bra/30DD http://www.newdomain.co.uk/sports-bra.html
redirect 301 /panache/sports-bra/30E http://www.newdomain.co.uk/sports-bra.html
redirect 301 /panache/sports-bra/30F http://www.newdomain.co.uk/sports-bra.html
And these don't work, I end up at a location like the following:
http://www.newdomain.co.uk/sports-bra.html30DD
See the way the last part of the path is appended to the url? I'm guessing it's because the second redirect is conflicting with the initial 301 redirect?
I have also tried using this rewrite rule but have had no luck. The site is Magento so I don't know if this has some effect? mod_rewrite is enabled on the server.
RewriteRule ^panache/sports-bra/ http://www.newdomain.co.uk/sports-bra.html [R=301]
Any help mucha ppreciated.

Try this.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(panache/sports-bra/.*)$ /sports-bra.html [L,R=301,NC]

Redirect all but some to new URL?

I am moving site and I want to do a 301 redirect on all but some of the URLs,
Like this:
oldsite.com/* -> www.newsite.com
oldsite.com/specific/article/to/redirect -> www.newsite.com/fancy/blah
So there are a few things I want to redirect to specific pages but all the rest should just goto root, how can this be done in .htaccess?

Add the following to the .htaccess file in the root directory of your old site.
#place your specific redirects first
Redirect 301 /specific/article/to/redirect http://www.newsite.com/fancy/blah
RewriteEngine on
#then your general redirect all to new site last
RewriteRule ^ http://www.newsite.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

There's RedirectMatch if you've got only one URL that needs to be exempted.
RedirectMatch permanent !/specific/article/to/redirect http://www.newsite.com
for multiple URLs, you'd probably be better off with mod_rewrite and an external rewritemap that lists the urls to be exempted.

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