Redirect url's using RewriteRule

Question

I had a site, say example.com/drupal running on xampp

I have since changed the DocumentRoot in httpd.conf to /drupal/, so that I could access my site using example.com

But Google has already crawled my site and shows results of the form

example.com/drupal/something

which of course go to 404 pages.

How do I use RewriteRules to redirect

example.com/drupal/something

to

example.com/something ?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '13 at 18:14

1

I'd simply use the standard Apache RedirectPermanent directive instead of bothering with attempting to use the relatively expensive Rewrite engine.

answered Feb 18 '13 at 18:14

mdpc

Thanks for your answer. It led me to http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html#redirectmatch (RedirectMatch), and I used the rule like RedirectMatch 301 ^/drupal/(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 – user160548 Feb 18 '13 at 18:27
Yes, I was thinking about referencing that directive too. – mdpc Feb 18 '13 at 18:28

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 18 '13 at 18:21

1

RewriteRule ^/drupal$ /
RewriteRule ^/drupal/(.*) /$1

answered Feb 18 '13 at 18:21

Hauke Laging

2 Answers2