htaccess redirect all files to index page

i've been working with a joomla site and want to redirect all requests in a subdirectory to the main page. I can't seem to do it with standard rewriterule or 301 redirects. I suspect its joomla interfering, any help?/tips?

 

Maybe something is wrong with your .htaccess code. This should do:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule subdir/?.* http://example.com/ [R=301,L]

If you do not want to redirect /subdir/ (without anything behind it) you should use subdir/.+ instead.

 

hmm, still can't get that to work, the normal joomla htaccess has:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css|js|pl|txt)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

So i put this rule in before any of those and still can't get it to work, joomla just redirects it to its 404 page, which i gather means it can't find it so goes to index.php which directs to its generated 404 page, which means the rule can't be overriding the index.php one.

 

Try /index.php instead of index.php

 

sorry, the rules i posted above are the existing rules for joomla. They currently work, i want to put one like: RewriteRule subdir/?.* http://example.com/ [R=301,L] so that old folders will redirect somewhere else, but those existing rules seem to keep overriding this.

 

can anyone offer further advice as i can't seem to get the new rule to fit in with the existing ones.