redirect with htaccess

How to write redirect

[Maleville]

Hi every body.

I would want to redirect a folder to an other which is on an other website.

[mysite.com...] > [other.com...]

1)° How to write this in .htaccess?
2°) Where to put .htaccess file? Root or in the folder /picture/ or in /tools/?
3°) Will this affect Google or other spiders. I mean, will my page rank down as it is only pictures which are redirect?

[jdMorgan]

Hi every body.

I would want to redirect a folder to an other which is on an other website.

[mysite.com...] > [other.com...]

1)° How to write this in .htaccess?

Introduction to mod_rewrite [webmasterworld.com] ;)

2°) Where to put .htaccess file? Root or in the folder /picture/ or in /tools/?

You could put it in either place. Some people like to "localize" their htaccess files for efficiency of execution, and some like to "centralize" them for efficiency of maintenance.

3°) Will this affect Google or other spiders. I mean, will my page rank down as it is only pictures which are redirect?

I doubt that it will have any effect, but who can be sure?

Jim

[Maleville]

In the Apache documentation I found:
^/somepath(.*) [otherhost...] [R]

which means [otherhost...] via external redirection (the [R] flag is redundant)

In the same .htaccess in the root pass, if I write:
RewriteRule Afolder/Bfolder/(.+) [otherdomain.com...] [L]
or
RewriteRule ^iere\.zip$ [otherdomain.com...] [L]
or
redirect /Afolder [otherdomain.com...]
It works.

Which isn't working, is:
RewriteRule ^/Afolder(.*) [otherdomain.com...] [R,L]

What's wrong?

[jdMorgan]

> What's wrong?

RewriteRule [b]^/A[/b]folder...

In .htaccess context, omit the leading slash on RewriteRule patterns, and use:

RewriteRule [b]^A[/b]folder...

Jim

[Maleville]

Jim,
Unfortunatly it doesn't work.
What can I do?

[jdMorgan]

Please be more specific about how it doesn't work: What does it do that it should not do, and what does it not do that it should do?

Do you get anything useful in your error log file?

Jim

[Maleville]

With this:

RewriteRule ^images(.*) [myotherdomain.com...] [L]

property of an image on mydomain.com is:
[mydomaine.com...]
instead of:
[myotherdomain.com...]

[BarkerJr]

What's wrong with a simple redirect?

Redirect permanent /picture/tools/ http://www.other.com/picture/tool21/

[Maleville]

I read somewhere that "Redirect" got a bad note from Google but not with "RewriteRule" which is transparent.

In fact, I forgot to clean my I.E cache and :
RewriteRule ^images(.*) [myotherdomain.com...] [L]
is working perfectly.

Thank's for the help and sorry to forget the cache.