.htaccess yikes!

[MrPenguin]

Hi guys,

Having a bit of trouble getting a htaccess redirect working. It's very easy but I am making a small typo somewhere!

I want to redirect about 400 product pages located at;

http://domain.com/product/product-name

to

http://domain.com/product-name

..basically just dropping /product/

Any help would be appreciated as my errors in Moz are all over the place!

[Ray-pp]

Hello MrPenguin,

Your code should look similar to this:

Redirect 301 /product/product-name http://domain.com/product-name

[TheeDigital]

I'm sure you don't want to rewrite all the pages 1 at a time, try the following to rewrite the entire folder.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.)product
RewriteRule ^(.)$ product/$1 [L]

[Matt-Williamson]

You could use the following RedirectMatch directive in your htaccess file obviously swapping in your actual domain -

RedirectMatch 301 ^/product/(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 

[MrPenguin]

Thanks for this, appears to work fine!

Is it ok sitting at the end?

BEGIN WordPress

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RedirectMatch 301 ^/product/(.*)$ http://cdkeyprices.com/$1</ifmodule>

END WordPress

#php_flag display_startup_errors on
#php_flag display_errors on
#php_flag html_errors on
#php_value docref_root 0
#php_value docref_ext 0

[Matt-Williamson]

mod_rewrite and RedirectMatch are two different ways of doing a 301 redirect - both are fine. You can have both inside a htaccess file, however you may want to place the RedirectMatch directive outside of the call for the mod_rewrite module so after

[MrPenguin]

Looks the good, thanks for all your help.

[Matt-Williamson]

No problem - that's what this community is all about