Redirect from Folder to Main Page

Redirecting from Folder to Main Page

[deezin]

Hello. I hope someone can help. I want to redirect from a folder on site one to the main page on site2. So for example...allfiles in

Site1/subdirectory/

should point towards

Site2/

so Site1/subdirectory/file1.html would be the same as Site2/file1.html etc...

I know that you put this in your .htaccess file when you are doing old-domain to new-domain redirection:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [site2...] [R=301,L]

but how do you do a old-domain-folder to new-domain redirection?

Thanks!

[MichaelBluejay]

RewriteRule ^subdirectory/(.*)$ [site2...]

[deezin]

Thank you! I tried it myself before you posted your response to my questions and I got it to work.

RedirectPermanent /subdirectoryofoldsite/ [newsite.com...]

Even though it works, do both my way and your way work the proper way for Google SEO?

Thank you!

[MichaelBluejay]

I've never seen the RedirectPermanent syntax, but if it does work then Google can't tell the difference. I forgot to add [R=301,L] to the end of mine, but other than that it shouldn't matter which code you use.

[deezin]

I've never heard of it before either but I found it on an online article and it worked...I'd link to it here but we aren't allowed to post links. Thanks for your input! :-)

[tedster]

Here's a reference:

[httpd.apache.org...]