.htaccess redirect folder to a url

Question

I'm trying to redirect a folder and all its sub files to a URL with a .htaccess file.

But

Redirect 301 /abc/cba/ http://www.aaa.com/ 

Will make /abc/cba/ddd/index.html redirect to http://www.aaa.com/ddd/index.html

What I want is redirect /abc/cba/ /abc/cba/ddd/index.html to http://www.aaa.com/

Could anyone help? Thanks. If anything not clear, please let me know.

Answer 1

By default, Redirect sort of maps the path node to a new path node, so anything after the first path gets appended to the target URL.

Try:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/abc/cba/ http://www.aaa.com/? 

Or if you'd rather use mod_rewrite instead of mod_alias:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/?abc/cba/ http://www.aaa.com/? [R=301,L] 

Answer 2

here's another example of a mod_rewrite rule that worked for me

I wanted to redirect a sub directory to the root of the same domain.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^sub_directory/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L] </IfModule> 

more examples can be found here:http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/redirecting-a-web-folder-directory-to-another-in-htaccess/