.htaccess redirect folder to a url

Question

I\'m trying to redirect a folder and all its sub files to a URL with a .htaccess file.

But

Redirect 301 /abc/cba/ http://www.aaa.com/

Answer 1

I perfer the following method:

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/somedir           [NC]
 RewriteRule /(.*) http://somesite.com/lost/$1 [R=301,L]