How do I 301 Redirect a complete folder?

[Force7]

Hi,

I am want to delete a folder and all the contents.  I then need to redirect anyone that is trying to reach a file in that folder to another page on my site.

example:   www.mydomain.com/folder/   (contains 50 pages)

I want to delete the folder and all 50 pages.

So if someone tries to reach www.mydomain.com/folder/page1.php

the redirect would take them to a specific page on my site.

Doing this to clean up old content.

How would I do this on the .htaccess?  I have redirected a page but not a folder.

Thanks in advance!

Force7

[rmontanez]

I believe this is the way to go: RewriteRule ^OldFolder/?(.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/NewFolder/$1 [R=301,L] The $1 on the end of the URL appends anything extra after /NewFolder/ onto the new dir.

[panini]

RewriteRule ^folder/(.*)$ http://www.newurl.com [R=permanent,L]

The above works for me.