Help on URL rewrite

I have URL not found problem in my site. because i have removed some pages but indexed in google. so want to redirect to the home page of my site.

The following is the URL:

http://www.site.com/2007/01/criteria-query-examples-in-last-lesson.html

this url should be redirected to http://www.site.com

what will be the RewriteRule for this.

 

use 404 rewrite:

redirect 404 h t t p : //www.site.com

 

digitalboy, that won't work. And he only wants removed pages to redirect to home pages, not to set the error document for 404 errors. (Which would be done with ErrorDocument, not Redirect.

krishna, just use a "Gone" status and Google will take the page out of the index next time it crawls your site:

Redirect 410 /2007/01/criteria-query-examples-in-last-lesson.html
ErrorDocument 410 /

Code (markup):

The ErrorDocument is used to redirect users to the home page.

 

What is "Gone" status.
How to use that.

 

I have 730 pages Not Found error. all the pages under /2007/01/. how can i set the rule for bulk.

 

one more doubt:

i am setting like this :
Redirect 410 /sitedir/news/cheap%20xenical
Redirect 410 /sitedir/news/goodwork%20abi
Redirect 410 /sitedir/news/goodwork%20adv

Here %20 is space in the url. how can i set it in the Rule.
Please help me.

 

This will apply to any file inside the /2007/01/ directory

RedirectMatch 410 /2007/01/.+

Code (markup):

"Gone" status means a page no longer exists, and is done by sending a 410 status code as in the code above.

Just use a space, but wrap the URL in quotes, e.g.:
Redirect 410 "/sitedir/news/cheap xenical"
Redirect 410 "/sitedir/news/goodwork abi"
Redirect 410 "/sitedir/news/goodwork adv"