I am a webmaster and advanced user, but not much of a scripter.

I have a folder in the root called "special". Occasionally, when I run special prices, I place a revised index in that folder (with the special prices on it), and send out emails with a clickable link to the discount page. Now, when the special sale is over, I'd like to redirect all requests for that folder (ie: links or requests for www.mydomain.com/special, as well as links or requests for www.mydomain.com/special/index-xyz123.html ) to the root (ie: www.mydomain.com) Note: the root of this website is not the true root of my hosting - it's a subfolder.

a) which folder should the htaccess be in? (hosting root, website root, or "special" subfolder)

b) what should the content be?

I've tried 301 & other approaches, and placed the file in the root and the special folder. Not sure what I'm doing wrong, I can't seem to get a correct result. Godaddy assures me I am on the right server and there are no permission problems.

Thanks

The .htaccess file should go into the special folder. It's content should be something like
check out
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod....html#redirect

Also make sure that your webservers allows usage of .htaccess files. The AllowOverride directive takes care of this and should not be set to None. (I'd go with All just to make sure the file is read)
Beside you can also put all the stuff that you put into a .htacces file inside the webserver config. Makes for faster queries cause the filesystem does not need to be searched for .htacces files.

Regards Zhjim

Thanks that's it:


Redirect 301 /special http://www.mydomain.com

Redirect 301 /special/purchase.html http://www.mydomain.com/purchase.html