htaccess 301 folder redirect

To redirect a complete website, one needs to do the following changes to the root .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [NC]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,NC]

However points to remember when there is some one-t-one relationship in the redirection. As in the case you might be required to have all the 3 conditions:

• redirect some high traffic pages to particular different pages on a different domain,
• redirect entire folders to some other folder,
• redirect rest of the pages to a different domain altogether.

Example:

1. Redirect a particular page:

RewriteRule ^2011/05/vtiger-pbx-integration.html http://www.amosvision.com/web-development/crm-modules-development.html [L,R=301]

2. Redirect entire folder:

RewriteRule ^2011/05/ http://www.amosvision.com/ [L,R=301]

3. Redirect rest of the pages:

RewriteRule ^/ http://www.amosvision.com/ [L,R=301]

In this case the RewriteRule sequence must be followed for all the requirements to be correctly meet.

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