How can I use htaccess to redirect paths with a wildcard character

Question

I have a site I recently upgraded. The old site had a calendar that created hundreds of pages, on the new site this has been replaced by an events page and those calendar UR

Answer 1

You can do with a few rewrite rules:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^calendar-for-groups/(.*)   /events [R=301,L]

Answer 2

You could use the RedirectMatch directive of mod_alias:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/calendar-for-groups/.*$ http://www.mywebsite.com/events

Or with mod_rewrite:

RewriteRule ^calendar-for-groups/ http://www.mywebsite.com/events [R=301,L]