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I have a site I recently upgraded. The old site had a calendar that created hundreds of pages, on the new site this has been replaced by an events page and those calendar URL's no longer exist. For months now I have been getting search engines pounding no longer existent pages like these ones.
For example:
page not found calendar-for-groups/2012-09-15/1093
page not found calendar-for-groups/2011-W09/77
page not found calendar-for-groups/2011-W27/77
page not found calendar-for-groups/2012-06-29/1093
How can I use htaccess to redirect any www.mywebsite.com/calendar-for-groups/* request to www.mywebsite.com/events?
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Wildcard URLs provide a way to load content dynamically depending on the page URL. By using wildcards, you can pass the values of query string parameters directly as part of the URL path.
Use a 301 redirect . htaccess to point an entire site to a different URL on a permanent basis. This is the most common type of redirect and is useful in most situations. In this example, we are redirecting to the "example.com" domain.
You could use the RedirectMatch directive of mod_alias:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/calendar-for-groups/.*$ http://www.mywebsite.com/events
Or with mod_rewrite:
RewriteRule ^calendar-for-groups/ http://www.mywebsite.com/events [R=301,L]
You can do with a few rewrite rules:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^calendar-for-groups/(.*) /events [R=301,L]
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