I would like to place a htaccess file in the root of a site and have this htaccess file redirecting 404 errors to the subfolder mysite.com/old using the url value in the redirection so it becomes like mysite.com/old/articel1.html
In essence, I need a dynamic redirect from mysite.com/anyPage.html to mysite.com/old/anyPage.html but only if a 404 error happens.
I have looked into rewrites but I need Google to see that the url has changed permanently.
I have tried googling it and tested many examples but none worked like I need it to be.
Can you help? :-)
Thank you :-)
You can redirect with your .htacces file
This should looking like this
ErrorDocument 404 /old/anyPage.html
And yes, this is not a 301, because you cant redirect 404 as 301 automaticly. Monitor your site with Google Console and add your redirect manually like this
RewriteEngine On
Redirect 301 /anyPage.html /old/anyPage.html