301 redirect whole site except one folder.

how can i stop one folder from redirecting?

[ezyid]

Hello all.
I have yes.. im sorry to say setup a 301 redirect.. im sticking with it but i still use the resources from the old site in a certian folder..
Does anyone know how i can make a specific folder under the domain that has the 301 to not redirect?

here is what im using
"
Redirect 301 / [$site$.com...]
"
It redirects the whole site.. but how can i stop it from redirecting say www.$#*$!$.com/folder/

Thank you.
Steve.

[jd01]

If you are only going to use Redirect, you will need to Redirect each directory separately... If you use mor_rewrite, you can do it in a two rules:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule !^the/pathto/the/directory - [C]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

This first rule checks to see if the requested URL is *not* the path to the directory you do not wish to redirect. If this is true (it is not the path) then the [C] (chain) will allow the rewrite to be executed, if it is not true (the path to the directory has been reqeusted) nothing will happen.

Hope this helps.

Justin

[jdMorgan]

Or alternatively,

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^the/pathto/the/directory
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Jim
[edit] Corrected space deleted by forum. [/edit]

[edited by: jdMorgan at 12:28 pm (utc) on Sep. 8, 2005]

[ezyid]

Sorry mate,
That gives me a 500 internal server error... do i need absolute paths?
i mean to the directory i wash to have "not 301"

Cheers.
Steve.

[jdMorgan]

Sorry, posting on this forum deletes spaces under certain circumstnaces (in this case between the "}" and the "!" above). I corrected that in the code above. If you still get a 500-Server Error, then try adding:

Options +FollowSymLinks

ahead of that code above.

And if that fails, then please post the relevant error messages from your server error log so we can see what the problem might be.

Jim

[EsterA]

I want to do the same as above + one more thing: To redirect the url www.old-xyzdomain.zz/ to www.old-xyzdomain.zz/forum/

To clearify:
I want to redirect all urls like www.old-xyzdomain.zz/anything to www.new-xyzdomain.zz/anything respectively, EXCEPT
a) www.old-xyzdomain.zz/forum/ which should not be redirected
and
b) the root url www.old-xyzdomain.zz/ which I want to redirect to www.old-xyzdomain.zz/forum/

How can I do that?

Edited: My original post was a mess.

[edited by: EsterA at 2:47 pm (utc) on Feb. 25, 2008]

[EsterA]

Can it not be done?

[g1smd]

To be clear, do you need a redirect (where the URL seen in the browser changes) or a rewrite (where the URL shown in the browser does not change)?

[EsterA]

Redirect, just as I wrote.

[g1smd]

It is very bad form to redirect the root of a domain, to a deep URL on the same domain.

[jdMorgan]

True, but these are different domains, so "root" is only relevant to the old domain, which now becomes a subdirectory of the new domain.

For a simple solution, see Apache mod_alias [httpd.apache.org]' Redirect and RedirectMatch directives.

Jim

[g1smd]

b) the root url www.old-xyzdomain.zz/ which I want to redirect to www.old-xyzdomain.zz/forum/

[EsterA]

Why would it be bad to redirect www.old-xyzdomain.zz/ to to www.old-xyzdomain.zz/forum/ ?

[g1smd]

The root URL of a domain is the most important URL of the site.

It should directly return content, or 301 redirect to the root of some other, more canonical, domain.