Htaccess- 301 Redirect An Entire Directory / Folder

Here’s a simple pierce of code which will permanently redirect a folder / directory. For example, if you have a directory in the following path: http://www.example.com/pictures/, and for whatever reason decide to rename the directory to http://www.example.com/new-pictures/, the following htaccess code will safely redirect all users from /pictures/ to /new-pictures/

Redirect An Entire Directory / Folder with Htaccess

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^old_dir/(.*) http://www.example.com/new_dir/ [R=301,L]

The nice thing about this code is that regardless of how deep you go into old_dir, it will always redirect. So literally the entire directory is redirected.