How to Redirect a Directory and all sub files

[adenjo]

I'm having trouble trying to redirect a directory we are no longer going to use.

Right now we want everything inside http://www.lautenaudio.com/techniques/ including URL's like "http://www.lautenaudio.com/techniques/faq.php?category_id=8&cat_name=Acoustic%20Guitar" to be redirected to Lauten Audio Recording Sessions - Microphone placement, techniques and sound samples

I've tried doing this in our .htaccess file, however the redirect takes the "faq.php?category_id=8&cat_name=Acoustic%20Gui tar" and adds it to the end of the lauten-sessions.htm file, like this http://www.lautenaudio.com/lauten-se...ustic%20Guitar.

This obviously creates a 404 error.

Can someone help guide me how to corretly infigure our .htaccess file or perhaps another way to do this redirect?

[incrediblehelp]

Can you post the redirect code?

[adenjo]

There is no "code" persay since it is within the .htaccess file. From what I understand this file some how communicates with Apache and tells it to redirect.

Here is the line I am using right now inside the .htaccess file

Redirect /techniques Lauten Audio Recording Sessions - Microphone placement, techniques and sound samples


If you click on the link below you will see the redirect URL result which adds the faq.php?...

http://www.lautenaudio.com/technique...&category_id=6

[wige]

The easiest way to accomplish the redirect should be the following line:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/techniques/.*$ http://www.lautenaudio.com/lauten-sessions.htm

[adenjo]

Originally Posted by wige

The easiest way to accomplish the redirect should be the following line:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/techniques/.*$ Lauten Audio Recording Sessions - Microphone placement, techniques and sound samples

Awesome! Now it works, exactly what I needed. Thank you Wige!