htaccess redirect question

[mhackl]

I have moved my forum from a "/forums/" sub-directory into the sites root directory. I have included the following code in my .htaccess file to redirect search engine links to the appropriate page in the sites new location and this is working great except I need to make an exception for the "/forums/images/" directory. This is where I need help.

Current code to redirect:

RewriteRule ^forums(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

How do I add a condition or exception to this to allow the "/forums/images/" to not be redirected?

[borbole]

Originally Posted by mhackl

I have moved my forum from a "/forums/" sub-directory into the sites root directory. I have included the following code in my .htaccess file to redirect search engine links to the appropriate page in the sites new location and this is working great except I need to make an exception for the "/forums/images/" directory. This is where I need help.

Current code to redirect:

RewriteRule ^forums(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

How do I add a condition or exception to this to allow the "/forums/images/" to not be redirected?

Try add a RewriteCond with a negative pattern that excludes the images folder.

Something like this for ex:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/images/

[mhackl]

Found the answer to my own question.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(images)
RewriteRule ^forums(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

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Originally Posted by borbole

Try add a RewriteCond with a negative pattern that excludes the images folder.

Something like this for ex:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/images/

Thank you! I responded to my own post before I saw that you had responded. Thank you for your response.

[borbole]

No problem.