Redirect without losing the baclinks

Hi

I have a website, which is operating under a folder . So the front page url is

domain.com/sub-folder

I have lot of backlinks but i do want to remove the "sub-folder" and put everything back in parent directory

However I want my backlinks to still work. If someone have a backlink

domain.com/sub-folder/page.html it should redirect it to domain.com/page.html since after I put everything in parent, the subfolder will not exist

Can this be done ?
Please help

 

You need to post it in apache section as this needs .htaccess settings.

 

Thanks ... i dont know how to do that. So not sure how i could have figured that out.

But will remember for next time.

 

put an .htaccess file in the documentroot which contains:

RewriteEngine On
RedirectPermanent /sub-folder/page.html http://yourdomain.com/

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Thanks mergemedia

But i am not sure if this will take care of all pages. I have hundreds of URLs . So How will we modify this to make it work for all pages

/sub-folder/page1.htm - page1.htm

/sub-folder/page2.htm goes to page2.htme

 

Bring on the power of regular expressions !

RewriteRule /sub-folder/(.*) /$1 [R=301,NC,L]

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The $1 in the second part of the rewrite rule matches anything in the parentheses () in the first part of the rewrite rule.

So if you request

/sub-folder/foo.html

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you will be told that the page has moved permanently to

/foo.html

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If you request

/sub-folder/anotherfolder/yetanotherfolder/foo.html

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you will be told that the page has moved permanently to

/anotherfolder/yetanotherfolder/foo.html

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