###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]