301 Redirect on A Ecommerce with .htaccess

Hello,
I have a doubt about creating a 301 redirect on a ecommerce website with apache and .htaccess.

The ecommerce structure is this:
home
home/cat1
home/cat1/cat2
home/cat1/cat2/cat3
home/cat1/cat2/cat3/product1
home/cat1/cat2/cat3/product2
....


I simply want to redirect all "product pages" to theirs category pages.


If I could make it manually I would insert in the .htaccess file:
redirect 301 /cat1/cat2/cat3/product1 www.home.com/cat1/cat2/cat3

But I can't do that for 15000 pages for every category. Is there anything that could automatically redirect the "product pages" to their category?

Let me know,
Thank you

 

This line is an infinite loop.
redirect 301 /cat1/cat2/cat3/product1 www.home.com/cat1/cat2/cat3/product1
You are redirecting a page to itself.
Am I missing something?
/cat1/cat2/cat3/product1 is the directory structure and www.home.com/cat1/cat2/cat3/product1 is the url.
Can you give a more accurate example?

 

Try using mod_rewrite instead of Redirect directive.

 

Hello,
I made a mistake. I didn't want to write this:

but this one:

Sorry for the treuble. I just correct my original post.

Thank you for your answer.

 

A quick and dirty solution depending on the category structure is to write a redirect fo each cat. Note that your products match the (.*)

Try this code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^cat1/cat2/cat3/(.*) http://www.home.com/cat1/cat2/cat3/ [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

I am not an expert, so try it before deploy it.
If the cat structure is more complicated you might need a more complex model.
Let us know if it worked for you.

 

it works! Thank you.