Redirect when changing language

[Marc145]

When I set up my new shop I left the default languages installed, but then decided to delete all languages besides English. Now google has indexed my products with /en in the path, so when people search and click on these products they see a 404 error. Is there any way to redirect from www.mysite.com/en to www.mysite.com until google has re-indexed the pages?

 

Thanks,

 

Marc

[phrasespot]

Assuming you are running Apache and you have mod_rewrite installed,

 

# Redirect the request to URL w/o /en/ after "301 Moved Permanently" response
RewriteRule ^(.*)/en/(.*) $1/$2 [R=301]

 

test thoroughly to make sure that it does not conflict with any redirect rule you may already have. It is difficult to account affects any other Apache modules like mod_alias and mod_userdir may have on the incoming request so rewriting is a server dependent process. Thus above may or may not work with your server. If it does not, post again.