I need help to redirect this links to 404 error

If someone tries to access these abbreviated page-types, then a 404 error:

http://getcityweather.com/international/region/na.html
http://getcityweather.com/international/ca/forecasts.html
http://getcityweather.com/international/ca/al_forecasts.html
http://getcityweather.com/international/ca/alberta_forecasts.html

I had tried to use .htaccess file redirect

# redirect all non-www traffic
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^region/\?\?\.html$
#RewriteRule ^region/??\.html$  http://www.google.com [R=permanent,L]
#RewriteRule ^region/([A-Za-z]{2})\.html$    http://www.google.com [R=permanent,L]
 
or this below code
 
Redirect 301 /region/af.html  http://www.getcityweather.com/us/

PHP:

Some one please let me know, whether I should do it through .htaccess way
or is there anything in php like catching the url and redirecting them.

Please help it is little urgent.

 

My knowledge of a rewrite rule is very limited, so I would Redirect 301

Maybe somebody in this forum will know how to do it with the rewrite rules.

 

It is ok! If you can provide me the redirect 301. Tell me, how would you do that?

 

Well your example was correct

in your .htaccess file type

Redirect 301 /region/na.html http://www.getcityweather.com/us/

Code (markup):

 

But the problem is, it is not working that is why I am asking for help here.

 

did you upload it to the root folder? and btw your htaccess is directing the wrong file

if you look at mine i have added /region/na.html while you have done /region/af.html

 

Is mod_rewrite even enabled? And you are actually using Apache as a webserver?

 

Yes, it is in root folder cause there are other stuff, which are working fine.

Actually, I am looking for both type of files na.html or af.html, in fact I like to have here any two characters of the file.html
ab.html
ac.html
na.html
sa.html

All these type of files should go to the 404 error page.

Thanks

 

Yes mode_rewrite is enabled as my other stuff is working fine.

 

Here is the other content of my file:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
######################
#  Weather Directory
######################
 
Redirect 301 /region/af.html  http://www.getcityweather.com/us/
 
#display regions
RewriteRule ^forecasts\.html$  /international/dir_files/index.php?do=regions    [L,S=1]
 
#display countries in a region
RewriteRule ^region/([A-Za-z][A-Za-z+]+)\.html$  /international/dir_files/index.php?do=countries&r=$1    [L,S=1]
 
#display cities or states in a country
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z+]+)/forecasts\.html$    /international/dir_files/index.php?do=states&c=$1    [L,S=1]

Code (markup):

 

Also, make sure you have the AllowOverride directive set up for the document root of your website.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#allowoverride

 

So, you want to redirect all /region/xx.html?

RewriteRule ^region/(.*)\.html$ /us/ [NC,R,L]

Code (markup):

 

why you are not using redirect 301, or redirect to 404 page using this meta header response

<?php
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
?>

 

I think this is the best solution for you. You can use it in your 404 page. So it may redirect all error link.
http://www.osproseo.com/redirect-301-permanently-php/

 

Thanks guys for your response, I had sort out this thing by Mr. google.

 

Oh here is my code for this file, which is working like a charm.

RewriteEngine On
 
RewriteRule (^region/[A-Za-z]{2}\.html) - [F,L] ###/asdf [R,L]

Code (markup):

Once again thanks dpiers for your time for providing such valuable help. I want to set best answer but I don't want to others to discourage for their efforts.