Apache is the first layer of your website security. With Apache cinfiguration, you can do so many stuff like blocking specific request, limit request from specific server, block automatic crawlers, redirect to specific website or urls etc.
Below are few examples how you can redirect with Apache web server to improve better user experience. .htaccess file is the Apache configuration file where you can change settings. So put the below lines to change the apache settings.
Redirect all routes to specific URL
Put the below line to .htaccess to redirect all routes to specific routes, e.g. https://laravelcode.com/
RewriteEngine on
Redirect 301 / https://laravelcode.com/
Redirect only specific portion of site
If you only want to redirect specific portion of sites, add below lines.
Redirect "/admin/" "https://www.laravelcode.com/admin/"
Redirecting a single URL
If you want to redirect only single URL to new page.
Redirect /path/to/old/url https://www.laravelcode.com/path/to/new/url
Redirect from directory to an HTML file
If you want to add .html extension in URL, here is it
RedirectMatch 301 ^/about https://www.laravelcode.com/about.html
Redirecting error messages
If you want to redirect to specific pages in case of 404 error page,
ErrorDocument 404 https://laravelcode.com/page-not-found
Forcefully redirect to HTTPS
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
Forcefully add www in the URL
If you forcefully want to add WWW in the URL.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^laravelcode.com
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.laravelcode.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Remove WWW from the URL
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.laravelcode.com
RewriteRule (.*) https://laravelcode.com/$1 [R=301,L]
I hope it will help you.
