Redirecting old blog addresses to new blog home page

[snowcreative]

This is driving me nuts. I've tried all sorts of variations of redirects with no success. I'm trying to redirect ALL old URLs like this:

http://blog.mysite.org/2011/03/18/ne...ces-3-18-2011/

to this:

http://mysite.org/blog/

So, whatever the old page, no matter what comes after "blog.mysite.org", it should redirect to just the new blog home page, not to any specific page in the new blog.

[Ron]

Try this?
Create a file .htaccess in the top blog.mysite.org directory containing:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   ^blog.mysite\.org [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)         http://mysite.org/blog/ [L,R=301]

The first line needs to be in the .htaccess file (and executed) somewhere before the next two, so if it's already in there, no need for it again.

The file should have permissions of 644 that's (rw-r--r--)

Good luck

[snowcreative]

Thanks. The key, though, was putting this redirect BEFORE all the Wordpress-specific redirects that were already in the .htaccess file. It's working now.

[Ron]

Ha! Good one!