301 Redirect with mod_rewrite or RedirectMatch

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301 Redirect with mod_rewrite or RedirectMatch

The Apache Web Server provides a couple ways to issue 301 Redirects from within .htaccess or httpd.conf files.

When do you need a 301 Redirect?

  • When you change your domain name
  • When you change a URL
  • When external links pointing to your site or pages are old or invalid

301 Redirects using mod_alias

Using mod_alias we have access to these directives: Redirect, RedirectMatch, RedirectPermanent, and RedirectTemp. You only need to know that RedirectMatch allows pattern matching and Redirect is only for a single file.

301 Redirects using Redirect

Redirect 301 /2007/webmaster/custom-phpini-with-fastcgi-on-dreamhost.html http://www.askapache.com/dreamhost/custom-phpini-with-fastcgi-on-dreamhost.html
Redirect 301 /2007/phpbb/sending-post-form-data-with-php-curl.html http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/sending-post-form-data-with-php-curl.html
Redirect 301 /htaccess.txt /wp-content/uploads/p/htaccess.txt
Redirect 301 /2007/webmaster/php-and-ajax-shell-console.html http://www.askapache.com/tools/php-and-ajax-shell-console.html
Redirect 301 /2007/webmaster/custom-phpini-with-fastcgi-on-dreamhost.html http://www.askapache.com/dreamhost/custom-phpini-with-fastcgi-on-dreamhost.html

301 Redirects using RedirectMatch

RedirectMatch 301 ^/(.*)\.htm$ http://www.askapache.com/$1.html
RedirectMatch 301 ^/200([0-9])/([^01])(.*)$ http://www.askapache.com/$2$3
RedirectMatch 301 ^/category/(.*)$ http://www.askapache.com/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/(.*)/htaccesselite-ultimate-htaccess-article.html(.*) http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/htaccess.html
RedirectMatch 301 ^/(.*)\.html/1/(.*) http://www.askapache.com/$1.html$2
RedirectMatch 301 ^/manual/(.*)$ http://www.php.net/manual/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/dreamweaver/(.*)$ http://www.askapache.com/tools/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/z/(.*)$ http://static.askapache.com/$1

301 Redirects with mod_rewrite

mod_rewrite is a powerful Apache module, and you should read more about it before you cause a problem.

301 Redirects using mod_rewrite

RewriteRule .* http://www.askapache.com/$1 [R=301,L]
 
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html([^c]+)comment-(.+)$ http://www.askapache.com/$1.html#comment-$3 [R=301,L,NE]

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  1. maguai ~

    I used your link above as a guide to redirect all pages with a slash at the end to .html
    RedirectMatch 301 ^/(.*)/$ http://www.example.net/$1.html
    but google says I still have pages without the slash (previously wordpress) that show 404. I tried
    RedirectMatch 301 ^/(.*)$ http://www.example.net/$1.html
    but this didn’t work. any ideas. I have 2 other site to redirect, some with 100+ pages so individually wont work. Ive looked anywhere, any idea? Thanks!

  2. Atif ~

    Thanks, this is what i needed.

    Just one thing, if new and old urls are both on the same domain, why it does not work without full new/destination URL:

    Redirect 301 /some-page.html /new-page.html

    It does not work. you have to write:

    Redirect 301 /some-page.html  http:www.example.com/new-page.html
  3. Dan ~

    How do you redirect an exe or zip file?

    I’ve tried:

    Redirect 301 http://www.site.com/old/software.exe http://www.site.com/new/software.exe

    But it doesn’t work…

  4. SirJ ~

    hi
    have a nice time.
    i have many of address forum one page !!
    how can i lock only 1 link for every page.
    for example :
    i have :
    modules.php?name=news
    news.html
    news.php
    now i want only news.html for page ! and when any user type modules.php?name=news in address bar , redirect to news.html

    sorry for my very bad english .
    i m waiting for you answer.
    thanks a lot.

  5. Liew Cheon Fong ~

    Great! Thank you very much! It solved my problem to redirect /blog/blog-posts/ to /blog-posts/ :)

  6. B George ~

    Hi,

    I’m using a tool to crawl my web pages. And the tool says I’ve duplicate pages. The duplicates are below:

    1. /
    2. /index.php

    Is it necessary and possible to redirect (1) to (2)?

    Thanks,
    Biju.

  7. AskApache ~ 
    RedirectMatch 301 ^/(.*)posts(.*)$ http://www.askapache.com/$1donations$2
  8. kitten13 ~

    Hello,

    I try desperately to apply your advice without success, I need to replace the words posts by donations in my url.

    So I did this but this does not :

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^([-]?[0-9]+)([-_][^/]*)?/posts/([0-9]+)([-_][^/]*)?/([0-9]+)([-_][^/]*)?/([0-9]+)([-_][^/]*)?\.html$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ ([-]?[0-9]+)([-_][^/]*)?/dons/([0-9]+)([-_][^/]*)?/([0-9]+)([-_][^/]*)?/([0-9]+)([-_][^/]*)?\.html$1 [L,R=301]

    or

    RedirectMatch 301 ^([-]?[0-9]+)([-_][^/]*)?/posts/([0-9]+)([-_][^/]*)?/([0-9]+)([-_][^/]*)?/([0-9]+)([-_][^/]*)?\.html$   

/([-]?[0-9]+)([-_][^/]*)?/dons/([0-9]+)([-_][^/]*)?/([0-9]+)([-_][^/]*)?/([0-9]+)([-_][^/]*)?\.html

    Could you tell me where is my mistake.

    Thank you for your help

    best regards

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