How can I use htaccess to redirect paths with a wildcard character

.htaccess redirect mod-rewrite
Bryan Casler picture Bryan Casler · Jul 29, 2011 · Viewed 68.4k times · Source

I have a site I recently upgraded. The old site had a calendar that created hundreds of pages, on the new site this has been replaced by an events page and those calendar URL's no longer exist. For months now I have been getting search engines pounding no longer existent pages like these ones.

For example:

page not found calendar-for-groups/2012-09-15/1093
page not found calendar-for-groups/2011-W09/77
page not found calendar-for-groups/2011-W27/77
page not found calendar-for-groups/2012-06-29/1093

How can I use htaccess to redirect any www.mywebsite.com/calendar-for-groups/* request to www.mywebsite.com/events?

Answer

Floern picture Floern · Jul 29, 2011

You could use the RedirectMatch directive of mod_alias:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/calendar-for-groups/.*$ http://www.mywebsite.com/events

Or with mod_rewrite:

RewriteRule ^calendar-for-groups/ http://www.mywebsite.com/events [R=301,L]

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