301 redirect of a subdirectory
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Hello!
I am working on a website with the following structure: example.com/sub1/sub2/sub3. The page "example.com/sub1" does not exist (I know this is not the optimal architecture to have this be a nonexistent page). But someone might type that address, so I would like it to redirect it to example.com/sub1/sub2/sub3.
I tried the following redirect: redirect 301 /sub1 http://example.com/sub1/sub2/sub3.
But with this redirect in place, if I go to example.com/sub1, I get redirected to example.com/sub1/sub2/sub3/sub2/sub3 (the redirect just inserts extra subdirectories).
If someone types "example.com/sub1" into a browser, I would "example.com/sub1/sub2/sub3" to come up. Is this possible?
Thank you!
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Matt,
Our web designer just made a change within Expression Engine, our CMS, and it worked!
Here's the code:
{if segment_2 == "" && segment_3 == ""}{redirect="sub1/sub2/sub3"}{/if}He put the code at the very top of the main /sub1/ template. It means "if segments 2 and 3 are empty, forward to /sub1/sub2/sub3."Thanks again for your help!
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Matt,
Thank you so much for your generous offer! I apologize for my delayed reply. I have had to turn my focus toward other issues and let this one go for the moment.
i really appreciate your support!
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Hi - what other redirects do you have in place - could you stick them on here and perhaps I can help you make sure they don't conflict?
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Matt,
Thank you very much.
I tried that code, but it seems to conflict with other redirects already in place. I will see what I can figure out.
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This should do the trick
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^sub1 http://example.com/sub1/sub2/sub3 [R=301,NC,L]
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