301 redirect many files to one?

Coastal Web · 02-25-2013, 03:45 PM

Hi guys, l'm trying to use htaccess to 301 redirect a bunch of old pages to a newly improved page. -- l have a lot of them and l was wondering if there was a cleaner way of doing this?

Code:

Redirect 301 /page1/ /newpage/
Redirect 301 /page1 /newpage/
Redirect 301 /page2/ /newpage/
Redirect 301 /page2 /newpage/
Redirect 301 /page3/ /newpage/
Redirect 301 /page3 /newpage/

Is there something like this l can do?

Code:

Redirect 301 (/page3|/page2|page1) /newpage/

Another point to mention, l have each URL listed twice, because it doesn't seem to work because of the trailing slash on the old page -- sometimes it's there for visitors sometimes it's not.

Fou-Lu · 02-25-2013, 10:42 PM

Not sure about the redirect since I don't think I've ever used it. But I'd expect rewrite would do it:

Code:

RewriteRule ^/page([0-9]+)/?$ newpage/ [L,QSA,R=301]

Something like that maybe (untested, don't know if it'll work)? Only really useful if the pages are actually named pagex where x is any number.
Otherwise, nothing stops you from using the | separator in the rule pattern to specify the individual pages.