Question

I’d like to push all users sending a request to a particular subdirectory back to the homepage. E.g.;

http://test.example.com/apps/
http://test.example.com/apps/sd1
http://test.example.com/apps/fjwoiejf/jiejn

Should all rewrite to:

http://test.example.com

The web server is Apache.

Answer 1

Sure in your htaccess file in the root of test.example.com:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^apps/(.*) http://test.example.com [R=301,L]

Also if you wanted to:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^apps/(.*) http://test.example.com/my_new_app_directory/$1 [R=301,L]

Or Even:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^apps/(.*) http://test.example.com/sorry_dude_this_does_not_exist.php?file=$1 [R=301,L]