I am trying to redirect all files in the folder mydomain.com/es to mydomain.com/ This works using

RedirectMatch 302 ^/es/ /index.php

However this is also redirecting the folder es/ in one of my addon domains. So myaddondomain.com/es/ is going to mydomain.com/

How do I stop this? I have searched through the forum and found these rules that people have posted, but neither of them work

RewriteRule ^myaddondomain.com/?$ - [L]

or

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/myaddondomain.com/$

CodePudding user response：

RedirectMatch 302 ^/es/ /index.php

If this should only apply to a particular domain (ie. hostname) then you need to use mod_rewrite (RewriteRule / RewriteCond) instead and check the HTTP_HOST in a condition. For example:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?mydomain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^es/ /index.php [R,L]

Note that the URL-path matched by the RewriteRule pattern (1st argument) in a directory context does not start with a slash.

This also allows for an optional www subdomain. Remove (www\.)? in the CondPattern if that is not required.

Note that this redirects to /index.php, not strictly mydomain.com/ as you stated in your description. Maybe you should be redirecting to / instead?

Aside: As far as SEO is concerned, many-to-one redirects to the homepage will likely be seen as a soft-404.

Aside:

I have searched through the forum and found these rules that people have posted, but neither of them work

RewriteRule ^myaddondomain.com/?$ - [L]

or

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/myaddondomain.com/$

I would be curious where you saw these (on StackOverflow?) as they are obviously incorrect in this context.

The RewriteRule pattern (first rule) matches against the URL-path only, so the first rule will never match.

Again, the REQUEST_URI server variable (second rule) contains the URL-path only so the "negated" condition will always be successful.