How do you redirect pages from a subdirectory up one level to the root directory

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Published on 2010-05-19T23:07:37Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 23:10 UTC
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I have recently moved all the content on my website from being in the www.mysite.com/shop directory to being in the root directory. This means that now I need to redirect any request to visit a page with the /shop directory back to the same page in the root directory eg.

www.mysite.com/shop/categories/washroom

to

www.mysite.com/categories/washroom

This needs to happen with all pages in my site that were previously using the /shop directory.

The closest thing to a solution that I have found so far is the following code

RedirectMatch ^/shop/.* http://www.mysite.com/

however this redirects all pages back to the homepage instead of to the relevant matching page without the /shop.

Can someone please point me in the right direction, or if this has already been answered in here can you please post the link to the answer.

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