htaccess RewriteRule to redirect from a directory that doesn't exist

[crmpicco]

I am attempting to redirect any URLs that attempt to access a directory that doesn't exist, however I am getting a 404 when trying the following:

RewriteRule ^picco/(.*)$ /rangers/$1 [L,R=301]

There is no directory called picco (it used to exist) however, when anyone tries to access a page picco/index.php for example I want to redirect to rangers/index.php.

Is this possible?

[MarPlo]

Hi,
Try this rewrite rule:

RewriteRule ^picco/([A-Za-z0-9_\.-]+)$ rangers/$1 [R=301]

Or this:

RewriteRule ^(.*)picco/([A-Za-z_0-9\.-]+)$ http://www.domain.net/rangers/$2 [R=301]

[crmpicco]

Thanks.

This also worked:

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^picco(.*)$ /rangers/$1 [R=301,L]