Permanent Redirect of Entire Directory to New URL

using .htaccess

[riospace]

I want to permanently redirect an entire directory on my site to a different URL. Is the following the correct way to achieve this in .htaccess:

RewriteRule ^directory/(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

[edited by: jdMorgan at 4:49 pm (utc) on April 8, 2007]
[edit reason] example.com [/edit]

[gabriel01]

That looks fine.

[gabriel01]

Another way to do it is as follows:

Redirect permanent /[i]your-directory[/i] http://www.example.com/

A request to /your-directory/blah.htm would be redirected to http://www.example.com.

Or like this:

Redirect permanent /[i]your-directory[/i][b]/[/b] http://www.example.com/

A request to /your-directory/blah.htm would be redirected to http://www.example.com/blah.htm.

[g1smd]

Do you actually want to redirect, where the URL in the browser actually changes and a 301 is issued? or do you want to just internally rewrite the URL so that what the user sees does not actually change?

Your answer to that decides what to do next...

[riospace]

I want to redirect, where the URL in the browser actually changes and a 301 is issued.