.htaccess

# 301 Redirects for .htaccess

# Redirect a single page:
Redirect 301 /pagename.php http://www.domain.com/pagename.html

# Redirect an entire site:
Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/

# Redirect an entire site to a sub folder
Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/subfolder/

# Redirect a sub folder to another site
Redirect 301 /subfolder http://www.domain.com/

# Redirect any .html file to use the same filename but use the .php extension instead
RedirectMatch 301 (.*)\.html$ http://www.domain.com$1.php

# Redirect all urls to one url, keeping any query string
RedirectMatch 301 ^(.*) http://www.domain.com/subfolder/


##
# 301 redirects using rewriting via .htaccess.
##

# Redirect from old domain to new domain
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

# Redirect to www location
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

# Redirect to www location with subdirectory
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/directory/index.html [R=301,NC]

# Redirect from old domain to new domain with full path and query string:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.newdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,NC]

# Redirect from old domain with subdirectory to new domain w/o subdirectory including full path and query string:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/subdirname/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.domain.com//%1 [R=302,NC]

# Rewrite and redirect URLs with query parameters (files placed in root directory)

# Original URL:

# http://www.example.com/index.php?id=1
# Desired destination URL:

# http://www.example.com/path-to-new-location/
# .htaccess syntax:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=1
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /path-to-new-location/? [L,R=301]
# Redirect URLs with query parameters (files placed in subdirectory)

# Original URL:

# http://www.example.com/sub-dir/index.php?id=1
# Desired destination URL:

# http://www.example.com/path-to-new-location/
# .htaccess syntax:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=1
RewriteRule ^sub-dir/index\.php$ /path-to-new-location/? [L,R=301]
Redirect one clean URL to a new clean URL

# Original URL:

# http://www.example.com/old-page/
# Desired destination URL:
# http://www.example.com/new-page/
# .htaccess syntax:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^old-page/?$ $1/new-page$2 [R=301,L]
# Rewrite and redirect URLs with query parameter to directory based structure, retaining query string in URL root level

# Original URL:

# http://www.example.com/index.php?id=100
# Desired destination URL:

# http://www.example.com/100/
# .htaccess syntax:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/d]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [QSA]
# Rewrite URLs with query parameter to directory based structure, retaining query string parameter in URL subdirectory

# Original URL:
# http://www.example.com/index.php?category=fish
# Desired destination URL:
# http://www.example.com/category/fish/
# .htaccess syntax:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?category/([^/d]+)/?$ index.php?category=$1 [L,QSA]
# Domain change – redirect all incoming request from old to new domain (retain path)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example-old\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example-new.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# If you do not want to pass the path in the request to the new domain, change the last row to:

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

# From blog.oldsite.com -> www.somewhere.com/blog/
# retains path and query, and eliminates xtra blog path if domain is blog.oldsite.com/blog/
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}/ blog
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.somewhere.com/%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.somewhere.com/blog/%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,NC]


# Nice URLS PHP .htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L,QSA]
# http://domain/about -> http://domain/about.php

# Redirect index.php Requests
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !/system/.*
RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET

# Specific custom URLs
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^foo/$    /pages/foo.html [L]
RewriteRule ^bar/$    /bar.php [L]
RewriteRule ^qux/$    /qux.html [L]
RewriteRule ^quux/$   /pages/quux.htm [L]