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i'm afraid in my situation the fix tgr0ss offers just gives me a 500 error.

thnks tgr0ss but i am not attempting to point my main url to a sub-directory.  i have already seen the above method and it is not a solution for my problem.  i have over 100 thousand links with the url string component/music/etc in it and would simply like to hide the word component.

I have been trying for a few hours now to hide a sub-directory from a url string on a joomla site using .htaccess

every method i have found either has no effect or breaks the site.

i am aiming to change all links with component in them:

http://mysite.com/component/music/7335

to

http://mysite.com/music/7335

I am using the latest Joomla 2.5 install but not sure how or if that affects anything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

fantastic! worked a treat, thankyou

I have a few thousand old urls with the string /content/ in them and are looking for a way to 301 batch redirect them. So for all the urls that contain the word 'content' I would like to redirect to 1 specific page. I have tried the methods below without success. Regular 301's are working fine but this particular method is not working for me. I am running a Joomla site but I don't imagine that would have any impact. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Redirect 301 ^content/.*$ http://www.mysite.com

Redirect 301 ^content/ http://www.mysite.com