Question

I would like to redirect all requests to a subfolder on down on a site. So:

http://thesite.com/oldfolder/whatever/anything.php?getvar_stuff

goes to

http://thesite.com/newfolder/

If I use the following .htaccess file:

RedirectMatch 301 /oldfolder http://thesite.com/newfolder/

.. the URL that returns is:

http://thesite.com/newfolder/?getvar_stuff

Don’t want the “post_stuff”, so I change the rewrite line to:

RedirectMatch 301 /oldfolder http://thesite.com/newfolder/?

.. the URL that returns is:

http://thesite.com/newfolder/?

Which is better, but I’d still love to lose that question mark. Is it possible?

Answer 1

It appears that the best way to do this is not using Redirect, but rather Rewrite:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/oldfolder/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://thesite.com/newfolder/? [R=301,L]