Topic: RewriteRule not working

[david.livelsberger]

I have been asked to add the following rewrite to a website:
http://www.website.com/neighborhoods/columbia-street
needs to be redirected to
http://www.website.com

I have tried the following. Neither works.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?website\.com/neighborhoods/columbia-street$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.website.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/neighborhoods/columbia-street/%{REQUEST_URI} -f
RewriteRule ^(.+) %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1 [L]

What am I doing wrong? Can anybody please help me to get this redirect to work?
Thank you in advance for your help!

[mraddi]

Hello David,

Your first try will not work as you are checking agains the HOST-header and not against the complete URL.

The second try is confusing me:
It look similar to the following line from http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html
RewriteCond /var/www/%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
There it is checked that the requested ressource is available on the filesystem. But in my eyes the part "neighborhoods/columbia-street/" is somehow wrong.

Please try the following config:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/neighborhoods/columbia-street
RewriteRule ^(.*) / [R=302,L]
which redirects all requests to /neighborhoods/columbia-street and ressources within to /.

Or use just the following One-Liner:
RewriteRule "^neighborhoods/columbia-street(.*)" "/$1" [R=302,L]
to redirect all requests to /neightborhoods/columbia-street two directories up:
/neighborhoods/columbia-street => /
/neighborhoods/columbia-street/no1 => /no1
/neighborhoods/columbia-street/no2/flat3 => /no2/flat3

Greetings
Matthias

[david.livelsberger]

Matthias,
vielen Dank!
I used your "one-liner" and it worked perfectly!