Here's how to redirect web pages using htaccess redirect rules. Make sure to enter the code AFTER "RewriteEngine On" directive. DO NOT REPEAT the "RewriteEngine On" directive either. Be extremely careful as any simple syntax error may cause your site not to display properly or at all.
1. Redirect an old domain to a new domain (replace https://new.site with your url).
This rule will map all the urls from the old site to the urls in the new site (unless you manually changed them, in which case you will need to do 301 redirect for every affected url)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://new.site/$1 [R=301,L]
2. Redirect an old domain to a new domain but exclude a directory (folder must reference an actual directory name)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/folder1/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/folder2/
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.newexampledomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
3. Redirect an old url to a new url for pages located on the same website (301 is a permanent redirect while 302 is a temporary redirect)
Redirect 301 /old-page /new-page
4. Redirect an old url to a new url on a different website
Redirect 301 /old-page https://different.site/new-page
5. Redirect a whole directory
RewriteRule ^old/(.*)$ /new/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
6. Force https on all website traffic
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
7. Force https on a particular domain when you have multiple domains pointing to the same website.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain1.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
8. Force https on a particular folder within your website. Folders must be actual directory names.
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(folder1|folder2) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
9. Show the content in site.com/this-folder but the url appears as site.com/that-folder
RewriteRule ^this-folder/?$ /that-folder/
6. Redirect all error 404 pages to home page
ErrorDocument 404 https://example.com
8. Rewrite all non-existing urls to the index.php file (all files and folders that do not exist will load normally and display the index page instead of an error page).
Again, if your site's index page isn't .php, just change the extension to match yours.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
9. Prevent browsing of directory index files
Options -Indexes
10. Redirect to a specific index file (replace index.html with your preferred default handler)
DirectoryIndex index.html
11. Force www in the url (paste the code after "RewriteEngine On" directive)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
12. Remove www in the url (paste the code after "RewriteEngine On" directive)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com
RewriteRule (.*) https://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
13. Rewrite a url such that https://example/1.html is shown as https://example.com/clean-seo-friendly-page.html
Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([0-9]+).html /clean-seo-friendly-page.html [QSA,L]
Interpreting #13
[0-9]+) - means any digit (and only digits) are allowed one or more times
([a-z]*) - means any lowercase letter and - for word separation allowed, 0 or more times. Use ([a-zA-Z]*) to allow uppercase letters.
[QSA,L] - appends this to your internal scripting query string, and makes it the Last rewrite rule executed.
14. Enable Gzip compression for website
# Compress HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Text, XML and fonts
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
# Remove browser bugs (only needed for really old browsers)
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Header append Vary User-Agent
# END Enable compression
15. Add expires header / cache policy
ExpiresActive on # Perhaps better to whitelist expires rules? Perhaps. ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month" # Data ExpiresByType text/xml "access plus 0 seconds" ExpiresByType application/xml "access plus 0 seconds" ExpiresByType application/json "access plus 0 seconds" # Favicon (cannot be renamed) ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 week" # Media: images, video, audio ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType video/ogg "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType audio/ogg "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType video/mp4 "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType video/webm "access plus 1 month" # Webfonts ExpiresByType application/x-font-ttf "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType font/opentype "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject "access plus 1 month" # CSS and JavaScript ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 year" ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 year"
16. Generic .htaccess redirect www to non-www
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
17. If you want to separate http and https redirect rules from www to non-www
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
18. How to redirect and entire website without losing url structure
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
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