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Help 301 Redirection rule

Hi,

The normal URL structure on my site is:

site.com/search/pdf/harry+potter

by accident I got lot of URLs indexed in Google this way:

site.com/search/harry+potter
site.com/search/book+title
etc...

The wrong URLs are leading to a page with error.

I need to write some 301 redirection rule on my .htaccess to redirect ALL links like

site.com/search/book+title

to

site.com/search/pdf/book+title

The attached code is the content of my .htaccess inside /search/ folder.

Please help, help!

Thank you in advance.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /search/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.) /search/index.php?query=$1 [L]

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happysunny

Have you tried redirecting it this way? Do you know how many web pages are being indexed that way?

# Redirect old file path to new file path

Redirect /olddirectory/oldfile.html http://example.com/newdirectory/newfile.html

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re-searcher

i want to say you answer but you made some mistakes.
SEO tip: instead or + using - it's better.

for redirecting site.com/search/some+thing to site.com/search/pdf/some+thing add following code to .htaccess

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www..*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]*).(com|com/)
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.%1.%2%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]



# REDIRECT ALL /SEARCH/* TO /SEARCH/PDF/*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /search/.*
RewriteRule search/(.*) search/pdf/$1 [R=301,L]

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