Topic: rewrite for any directory

[fabianus]

Hello all,

I would like to write a rewrite rule that does the following:

RewriteEngine On

Redirect 301 http://www.mydomain.com/someFolder1/someOtherFolder2/myWebPage.aspx http://www.mydomain.com/myNewWebPage.html


So what I want is that the first url is rewritten to go to the second ... BUT, now comes the problem:
I have a whole bunch of links that I have to redirect, so I would like to place them all into one .htaccess file or into the default configuration file of apache. So what I do not want is to create SomeFolder1 and someOtherFolder2 and to place a .htaccess file into that place in order to make it work. In fact I want to ignor the folders of the old link and only use the pagename. I tried this:

Redirect 301 http://www.mydomain.com/[*]myWebPage.aspx http://www.mydomain.com/myNewWebPage.html

But it doesn't work ...

I hope I was clear enough and thanks a lot for any suggestion.

Best regards,
Fabianus

[maba]

Check out the documentation for RedirectMatch.

Redirect (as the name suggests) will not do patterns. RedirectMatch will.

If this is still not flexible enough go with Rewrite.