Question

I have this directory structure:

|-language-A\
|-language-A\program-A
|-language-A\program-B
|-language-A\program-C
|
|-program-A\

Currently program-A is not translated to the language-A but somehow Google was able to crawl this directory and now it’s showing in the search results. I need to redirect language-A\program-A to program-A in the root … not all the folders inside language-A just that directory. This is a temporary redirection as I will remove that rule once that translation is ready.

So basically it will be something like:

http://example.com/language-A/program-A/what-ever

To:

http://example.com/program-A/what-ever

Answer 1

The question really doesn’t say much so I will assume all strings are fixed and there are no parameters to pass:

You may try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}   ^/language-A/program-A/?   [NC]
RewriteRule .*    program-A  [R,L]

Redirects temporarily

http://example.com/language-A/program-A

To:

http://example.com/program-A

All according to your question: I need to redirect language-A\program-A to program-A in the root...

UPDATED

According to question update:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}   ^/language-A/program-A(.*)?   [NC]
RewriteRule .*    program-A%1  [R,L]

Redirects temporarily

http://example.com/language-A/program-A/what-ever

To:

http://example.com/program-A/what-ever

/what-ever is optional and will be passed if exists.