RewriteRule for 301 redirect

Question

I went through all the answered threads on rewrite rule problem. Tried the suggestions, But I still don't know what I am doing wrong.

I want to make a 301 redirect of our old URLs to the new ones. Example:

old url : http://www.xyz.com/abc/topics.html
new url : http://www.xyz.com/index.php#first

I am trying following rule in .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^\/abc\/(.+)$ http://www.xyz.com/index.php#first [L,R=301]

Any advice is highly appreciated

Answer 1

Try this:

RewriteRule ^abc\/(.+)$ http://www.example.com/index.php#first [L,R=301,NE]

Answer 2

You can, of course, do it by "mod_rewrite", but in this situation I'd suggest you use mod_alias as it is faster and simpler (see this SO response: mod_rewrite or mod_alias?)

Like this:

Redirect permanent /abc http://www.xyz.com/index.php#first