Works perfectly. I had to modify the last line though:
RewriteCond ^blog(.*) /$1 [L,R=301]
to
RewriteRule ^blog(.*) /$1 [L,R=301]
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I moved my CMS to the root directory from a subfolder named "blog"
Old URL [Sample]
http://www.somedomain.com/
New URL [Sample]
http://www.somedomain.com/
However, the images (JPG/GIF/PNG) are stored in the "blog" subfolder as usual. The problem is that, when I set a 301 redirect using .htaccess (code given below), it redirects the CSS, JPG, GIF, PNG files also, but the mentioned files are present in the old location.
Example:
http://www.somedomain.com/
Therefore, I want to prevent URLs that contain the word "wp-content" from being 301 redirected. Only the articles have to be redirected.
Any insight would be appreciated!
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by: ravenplPosted on 2008-04-09 at 09:15:20ID: 21316403
Options +FollowSymLinks [NC]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css)^
RewriteCond ^blog(.*) /$1 [L,R=301]