I'm trying to redirect a page and any subpages to the root but I can't find a way of doing it. I'm using the redirection plugin (https://redirection.me/). I would rather doing it via the plugin to keep all redirects in one place rather than .htaccess.
I would like to redirect https://www.example.co.uk/developments/ and any subpages e.g. https://www.example.co.uk/developments/test or https://www.example.co.uk/developments/another-test etc. to the home page.
I tried just now it seemed to break the subpages so I had to revert the redirect.
This is what I was trying to use in the source URL:
/developments/development-name/*
And the target URL:
/
With REGEX and Ignore Slashes enabled.
CodePudding user response：
/developments/development-name/* is not what you want. It looks like you are trying to do globbing with that *. In regex, the equivalent of a glob * is .* where . means "any character" and .* means zero or more of any character.
The rule that would implement a redirect to the home page is:
- source:
/developments/.* - target:
/
However, redirecting to the home page is not usually a good idea. It is usually better to remove the content and show a custom 410 Gone error saying why the content was removed. When you redirect to the home page:
- Users don't get a meaningful error message and get frustrated with the bad user experience
- Search engines call it a "soft 404" error and treat it just like the content was removed, so you don't get any SEO benefit.