I need to have JoomSEF rewrite everything that looks like this:

www.site.com/music/pagename.html

to be forwarded to this instead:

www.site.com/new-music/pagename.html

Is there a way to redirect an entire subdirectory in this manner using JoomSEF?

By the way, in this example "new-music" is an actual category name (if that matters at all).

If it is not possible to do this with JoomSEF is there a way to do it with .htaccess?


My sincere thanks for your help on this!

Hello,

This is not possible with JoomSEF (not without manually creating redirect for every link), however, it could be done in .htaccess. I guess the rule should be something like

but I'm not quite sure - try using Google, there should be enough articles about this problem.

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team

I tried that suggestion:

RewriteRule /music/ /sheet-music/ [R=301, NC, L]

but it took the entire site offline with a 500 Internal server error.

Anyone else have any alternatives?