Question

I moved a file (file.pdf) from the root of my web directory into a folder called “myfiles”. In order to not break existing links and bookmarks, I am looking to setup a rewrite rule so that:

http://www.domain.tdl/file.pdf will redirect to http://www.domain.tdl/myfiles/file.pdf

The rewrite rule should work whether you include “www” or not.

Also, my website has a second domain (domain2.tdl). What is the best way to write this rule so that it will work for domain.tdl and domain2.tdl?

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Assuming you use htaccess, this should do:

RewriteRule ([a-zA-Z0-9.-_]+).pdf myfiles/$1.pdf [NC,L]

This means that every PDF that is required from the root will be retrieved from the myfiles folder…