Please help me redirect old url to new url using htaccess

Question

I have some old urls from our old site as follows:

http://www.example.com/archives/2006/08/test.html

I want all my urls as shown above, starting with www.example.com/archives/* to point to www.example.com/gossip

Can anyone please give me the right htaccess code to do the same? Thanks a lot!

Kip

Answer 1

This will do what I think you're asking for:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/archives/.*$ /gossip [R,L]