Best way to 301 redirect 600 URL's back to the homepage?

[efeezy]

I've got 600+ url's that I need to 301 back to the homepage. Is there a quick and easy way to do this, possibly with an .htaccess mod? Thanks.

Oh, and I have all of the URL's in a spreadsheet, so they're easy to access, cut, chop, paste whatever needs to be done.

 

[Scriptingman]

What's the url structure like? Same domain? same path? Are there any urls on the same vhost that should not be redirected back to the homepage?

Give me a sample of the urls, (replace the domains with something generic) and I'll try to hack together a rewrite script (you're mentioning .htaccess, so I assume the pages are hosted with Apache).

 

[imkazu]

if they follow a similar pattern, use regex

 

[jitendraag]

If you can find a common pattern between these URLs, it should be easy to redirect all to home page with 1-2 simple regex rules. Otherwise you might have to go for one of these options.

1. All missing files are handled by a single file:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /missing.php [L]

The missing.php can check whether the URL is one of your 600 URLs.

2. You have individual redirects from all of these URLs.

 

[Nathan Malone]

Many ways to accomplish this. If the 600 URLs are all hitting the same script (example: filename.php?pageId=600 ), you can simply put up a 301 redirect on that page that will redirect to the home page.

jitendraag has it covered, though, with the mod_rewrite rule posted above. That would likely be the easiest solution for you to go about.

 

[efeezy]

Thanks guys. I got it sorted out with that htaccess rewrite.