Redirect URLs using .htaccess

Sometimes you need to redirect some URL and/or page on your site to another one.
The feature is very useful if you have recently redesigned your site but you wish to keep the old addresses working for various reasons (you have links to these pages from other sites, some users may have the old pages bookmarked, etc).

The Apache web server provides several way for setting up redirects.

The most simple one is using the “Redirect” directive:
Redirect /folder http://www.example.com/newfolder
With such a line in your .htaccess if a visitor tries to load http://www.example.com/folder,…