Redirect all files reference permanently from old dir to new dir

Hi,

I want to redirect all the old file reference from old directory to new dir.

for ex.

I want the following file references:

domain.com/old_dir/file1.html
domain.com/old_dir/file2.html
domain.com/old_dir/file3.html

to the following

domain.com/newdir/search.php?item=file1
domain.com/newdir/search.php?item=file2
domain.com/newdir/search.php?item=file3

If I cannot get the above then at least I want the following:

domain.com/old_dir/file1.html
domain.com/old_dir/file2.html
domain.com/old_dir/file3.html

to be redirected to the following:

domain.com/newdir/


How do I accomplish this?

Thanks!

 

Not sure about what kind of redirect you want. I assume that all what you need is to rewrite the URL's without any redirect.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^old_dir\/(.*)\.html$ /newdir/search.php?item=$1 [L]

Code (markup):

Jean-Luc

 

This did not work. What type of redirects are there?

The old_dir does not exist but there are URLs in the search engines and that's why I want the visitors to be redirected to the new URL.

 

hi

Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.example.com/newpage.html

Code (markup):

this should do the trick

 

It is actually many pages from old dir needs to be redirected to specific new dir pages. Here's an example;

The following pages:

domain.com/old_dir/file1.html
domain.com/old_dir/file2.html
domain.com/old_dir/file3.html

should be redirected to the following pages

domain.com/newdir/search.php?item=file1
domain.com/newdir/search.php?item=file2
domain.com/newdir/search.php?item=file3

 

Well then just do the same as above just for every page you need it for

example

Redirect 301 /old_dir/file1.html domain.com/newdir/search.php?item=file1
Redirect 301 /old_dir/file2.html domain.com/newdir/search.php?item=file2
Redirect 301 /old_dir/file3.html domain.com/newdir/search.php?item=file3

Code (markup):

 

To redirect a bunch of old URL's to new one's, I would use this:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^old_dir\/(.*)\.html$ http://www.example.com/newdir/search.php?item=$1 [L,R=301]

Code (markup):

Jean-Luc