ScottPhillips · February 2, 2012 04:30 · Fiona854 · Mar 4, 2025 · Zaryaab74 · Mar 6, 2025
diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
 #301 Redirects for .htaccess

 #Redirect a single page:
 Redirect 301 /pagename.php http://www.domain.com/pagename.html

 #Redirect an entire site:
 Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/

 #Redirect an entire site to a sub folder
 Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/subfolder/

 #Redirect a sub folder to another site
 Redirect 301 /subfolder http://www.domain.com/

 #This will redirect any file with the .html extension to use the same filename but use the .php extension instead.
 RedirectMatch 301 (.*)\.html$ http://www.domain.com$1.php

 ##
 #You can also perform 301 redirects using rewriting via .htaccess.
 ##

 #Redirect from old domain to new domain
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteBase /
 RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

 #Redirect to www location
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteBase /
 rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
 rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

 #Redirect to www location with subdirectory
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteBase /
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain.com [NC]
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/directory/index.html [R=301,NC]

 #Redirect from old domain to new domain with full path and query string:
 Options +FollowSymLinks
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.newdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,NC]

 #Redirect from old domain with subdirectory to new domain w/o subdirectory including full path and query string:
 Options +FollowSymLinks
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/subdirname/(.*)$
 RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.katcode.com/%1 [R=302,NC]

 Rewrite and redirect URLs with query parameters (files placed in root directory)

 Original URL:

 http://www.example.com/index.php?id=1
 Desired destination URL:

 http://www.example.com/path-to-new-location/
 .htaccess syntax:

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=1
 RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /path-to-new-location/? [L,R=301]
 Redirect URLs with query parameters (files placed in subdirectory)

 Original URL:

 http://www.example.com/sub-dir/index.php?id=1
 Desired destination URL:

 http://www.example.com/path-to-new-location/
 .htaccess syntax:

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=1
 RewriteRule ^sub-dir/index\.php$ /path-to-new-location/? [L,R=301]
 Redirect one clean URL to a new clean URL

 Original URL:

 http://www.example.com/old-page/
 Desired destination URL:
 http://www.example.com/new-page/
 .htaccess syntax:

 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteRule ^old-page/?$ $1/new-page$2 [R=301,L]
 Rewrite and redirect URLs with query parameter to directory based structure, retaining query string in URL root level

 Original URL:

 http://www.example.com/index.php?id=100
 Desired destination URL:

 http://www.example.com/100/
 .htaccess syntax:

 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteRule ^([^/d]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [QSA]
 Rewrite URLs with query parameter to directory based structure, retaining query string parameter in URL subdirectory

 Original URL:
 http://www.example.com/index.php?category=fish
 Desired destination URL:
 http://www.example.com/category/fish/
 .htaccess syntax:

 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteRule ^/?category/([^/d]+)/?$ index.php?category=$1 [L,QSA]
 Domain change – redirect all incoming request from old to new domain (retain path)

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example-old\.com$ [NC]
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example-new.com/$1 [R=301,L]
 If you do not want to pass the path in the request to the new domain, change the last row to:

 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example-new.com/ [R=301,L]

 #From blog.oldsite.com -> www.somewhere.com/blog/
 retains path and query, and eliminates xtra blog path if domain is blog.oldsite.com/blog/
 Options +FollowSymLinks
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}/ blog
 RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.somewhere.com/%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,NC]
 RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.somewhere.com/blog/%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,NC]
	#301 Redirects for .htaccess

	#Redirect a single page:
	Redirect 301 /pagename.php http://www.domain.com/pagename.html

	#Redirect an entire site:
	Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/

	#Redirect an entire site to a sub folder
	Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/subfolder/

	#Redirect a sub folder to another site
	Redirect 301 /subfolder http://www.domain.com/

	#This will redirect any file with the .html extension to use the same filename but use the .php extension instead.
	RedirectMatch 301 (.*)\.html$ http://www.domain.com$1.php

	##
	#You can also perform 301 redirects using rewriting via .htaccess.
	##

	#Redirect from old domain to new domain
	RewriteEngine on
	RewriteBase /
	RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

	#Redirect to www location
	RewriteEngine on
	RewriteBase /
	rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
	rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

	#Redirect to www location with subdirectory
	RewriteEngine on
	RewriteBase /
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain.com [NC]
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/directory/index.html [R=301,NC]

	#Redirect from old domain to new domain with full path and query string:
	Options +FollowSymLinks
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.newdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,NC]

	#Redirect from old domain with subdirectory to new domain w/o subdirectory including full path and query string:
	Options +FollowSymLinks
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/subdirname/(.*)$
	RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.katcode.com/%1 [R=302,NC]

	Rewrite and redirect URLs with query parameters (files placed in root directory)

	Original URL:

	http://www.example.com/index.php?id=1
	Desired destination URL:

	http://www.example.com/path-to-new-location/
	.htaccess syntax:

	RewriteEngine on
	RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=1
	RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /path-to-new-location/? [L,R=301]
	Redirect URLs with query parameters (files placed in subdirectory)

	Original URL:

	http://www.example.com/sub-dir/index.php?id=1
	Desired destination URL:

	http://www.example.com/path-to-new-location/
	.htaccess syntax:

	RewriteEngine on
	RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=1
	RewriteRule ^sub-dir/index\.php$ /path-to-new-location/? [L,R=301]
	Redirect one clean URL to a new clean URL

	Original URL:

	http://www.example.com/old-page/
	Desired destination URL:
	http://www.example.com/new-page/
	.htaccess syntax:

	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteRule ^old-page/?$ $1/new-page$2 [R=301,L]
	Rewrite and redirect URLs with query parameter to directory based structure, retaining query string in URL root level

	Original URL:

	http://www.example.com/index.php?id=100
	Desired destination URL:

	http://www.example.com/100/
	.htaccess syntax:

	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteRule ^([^/d]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [QSA]
	Rewrite URLs with query parameter to directory based structure, retaining query string parameter in URL subdirectory

	Original URL:
	http://www.example.com/index.php?category=fish
	Desired destination URL:
	http://www.example.com/category/fish/
	.htaccess syntax:

	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteRule ^/?category/([^/d]+)/?$ index.php?category=$1 [L,QSA]
	Domain change – redirect all incoming request from old to new domain (retain path)

	RewriteEngine on
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example-old\.com$ [NC]
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example-new.com/$1 [R=301,L]
	If you do not want to pass the path in the request to the new domain, change the last row to:

	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example-new.com/ [R=301,L]

	#From blog.oldsite.com -> www.somewhere.com/blog/
	retains path and query, and eliminates xtra blog path if domain is blog.oldsite.com/blog/
	Options +FollowSymLinks
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}/ blog
	RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.somewhere.com/%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,NC]
	RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.somewhere.com/blog/%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,NC]