.htaccess mod_rewrite issue

Jukas · 12-09-2005, 04:39 PM

I have a couple of subdirectories off my domain that are no longer valid, as they've been moved elsewhere, to the root directory or just deleted.

I was trying to put in a 301 redirect via .htaccess to point the non existant directories back to the root website, or another relevant directory. However when I keep going to the old URL, I still get the 403 error and it doesn't redirect anywhere.

For example lets take http://www.domain.com/gallery/ I've tried to put in a 301 redirect back to just http://www.domain.com using the following methods;

RewriteRule ^/gallery$ /
or
RewriteRule ^/gallery/$ /
or
Redirect /gallery http://www.domain.com/
or
Redirect permanent /olddirectory http://www.domain.com/

I'm running Apache 1.3.33 on Debian and I know mod_rewrite is installed because I use a rewrite for wgets to an google search.

What am I missing?

Spudley · 12-10-2005, 05:26 AM

Try this:

Code:

RewriteRule ^gallery/?(.*) /$1 [R=301,L]

I haven't had a chance to test that before posting, but hopefully it should do the trick. Let me know

Jukas · 12-13-2005, 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spudley

Try this:

Code:

RewriteRule ^gallery/?(.*) /$1 [R=301,L]

I haven't had a chance to test that before posting, but hopefully it should do the trick. Let me know

Nope, same result. If my wget rewrite didn't work I'd think mod_rewrite wasn't installed. This is driving me batty.