{"id":703,"date":"2020-06-04T13:35:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T05:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=703"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:54:12","slug":"how-to-redirect-complete-wordpress-subfolder-from-htaccess-file","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/how-to-redirect-complete-wordpress-subfolder-from-htaccess-file","title":{"rendered":"How to redirect complete WordPress subfolder from .htaccess file"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 dir=\"ltr\">How to redirect complete\u00a0WordPress\u00a0subfolder from .htaccess file<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Before edit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plesk.com\/wiki\/htaccess\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">.htaccess<\/a> file, you need to copy a backup .htaccess to your local PC.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Existing .htaccess should look something like:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Code:<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"># BEGIN WordPress<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">RewriteEngine On<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">RewriteBase \/<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \u2013 [L]<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">RewriteRule . \/index.php [L]<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&lt;\/IfModule&gt;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"># END WordPress<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Add a redirect for complete folder:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Code:<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"># BEGIN WordPress<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">RewriteEngine On<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">RewriteBase \/<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \u2013 [L]<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">RewriteRule . \/index.php [L]<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&lt;\/IfModule&gt;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"># END WordPress<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Redirect 301 \/oldfolder\u00a0http:\/\/www.yourdomain.com\/newfolder<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Please refer to the following article to know more.<br \/>\nKnowledge Base: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/wordpress-administrator-password-reset\">WordPress administrator password reset<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to redirect complete\u00a0WordPress\u00a0subfolder from .htaccess file Before edit the .htaccess file, you need to copy a backup .htaccess to your local PC. Existing .htaccess should look something like: Code: ================================================== # BEGIN WordPress &lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt; RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \u2013 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] &lt;\/IfModule&gt; # END WordPress ================================================== Add&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[28],"kbtag":[1494,1134],"class_list":["post-703","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-wordpress","kbtag-htaccess","kbtag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5976,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/703\/revisions\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}