Question

Google has indexed certain pages in my website that I wouldn’t like users to access directly but from the homepage (forexample).

Using .htaccess how can I redirect incoming outside links to certain pages and make it go to my homepage?

Answer 1

To prevent Google from indexing specific pages on your site in future, use a noindex meta tag.

To send specific pages to the home page, e.g. http://mysite.com/somddir/somepage.htm add the following to your .htaccess in the root directory of your site

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase / 

# add a rule like this for each page you want to redirect
RewriteRule ^somedir/somepage\.htm$  / [L,NC,R=302] 

Be sure to use R=302 and not 301, which is permanent.