Know what HTTP status to give

Before we begun, You should be aware of what type of HTTP code to give when redirecting pages on server side.

• 301 = Page is Permanently Moved to new location
• 302 = Page found, But temporarily moved to new location (This is useful when you want to redirect users while doing some updates or maintaining site).

Move a Single Page

Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.example.com/newpage.html

This simple code will Redirect oldpage.html to given url on the right

Move Entire Site

Redirect 301 / http://www.newsite.com/

This code is useful when you want to move an Entire site to a new domain. All request will be redirect to new url for example If a user request http://www.oldsite.com/folder/page.html this code will redirect that user to http://www.newsite.com/folder/page.html . As you can see that all requests will be send to new url as well.

Rename File Extension

RedirectMatch 301 (.*)\.html$ http://www.example.com$1.php

This will simply change all .html requests into .php on anywhere on the site.

Redirect a Folder to another Folder or site

RedirectMatch 301 /folder$ http://www.example.com

This will redirect http://www.oldsite.com/folder to http://www.example.com. If you want the request followed by folder to be send to new site, you need to add $1 at the end of new URL (RedirectMatch 301 /folder$ http://www.example.com/$1).