htaccess 301 redirect

Hi,

I am a newbie..plzz help me out in this.

The scenario is like this:

There is a folder on the root named as "application". Inside this folder there are subfolders containing index.php files.

So, when we tried to access the subfolders containing index.php files , the url on the address bar will be

www.somewebsite.com/application/folder1/index.php

Now, we dont want "application" to be displayed in the url.

To fulfill the above requirement,

In .htaccess we added a code snippet :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/application/.*$
RewriteRule ^folder1/(.*)$ /application/folder1/$1

This successfully solves the problem by making the url access the page in both ways
URL1 : www.somewebsite.com/application/folder1/index.php
URL2 : www.somewebsite.com/folder1/index.php

But , now the problem is :

I want to do 301 redirect whenever URL1 is clicked , it should redirect to URL2.

How to achieve this in .htaccess ? can you provide me with some generic code..

Any help is appreciated...

 

Hi,

This is the correct .htaccess code for 301 redirection

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/application/.*$
RewriteRule ^folder1/(.*)$ /application/folder1/$1 [R=301,L]

 

Thank you nikhilrajr, The above codespec when added to htaccess it redirects me from www.somewebsite.com/folder1/index.php to www.somewebsite.com/application/folder1/index.php. I want it to redirect in a reverse way. Plz have a look on the above scenario for better understanding.

 

Try this
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/application/.*$
RewriteRule ^folder1/(.*)$ /application/folder1/$1 [R=301,L]

 

Try this also

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^folder1/index.php$ application/folder1/index.php [NC,L]

 

Try RedirectMatch also