Redirect a Subdirectory and any following subdirectories

Asked By: Anonymous

I am having an issue with a subdirectory that has many different paths, but on the new website we are no longer using that structure. The old website worked this way:

example.com/photos/photo-1
example.com/photos/photo-2
example.com/photos/photo-3

On our new site we are not using /photos, and my current redirect attempts have not worked

Redirect 301 /photos https://example.com/

ends up redirecting to

example.com/photo-1
example.com/photo-2
example.com/photo-3

Removing the photos subdirectory, but still attempting to access the subdirectory that follow it.

The desired result would be for any attempt to access example.com/photos or example.com/photos/* should redirect to homepage at example.com/

Any help would be appreciated.

Solution

Answered By: Anonymous

This should do it.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteRule ^photos/(.+) https://example.com/ [R=301,L]
</IfModule>