.htaccess redirection 302 on no longer exists folder

Question

I have old pages : http://www.example.com/search/old-search-1.php http://www.example.com/search/old-search-2.php ... http://www.example.com/search/old-search-10000.php

That I wanted to reditect (301) to home.

I try with .htaccess (placed on /) with this : ...

RewriteRule ^/search/$ http://www.example.com [R=301,L]

But don't do anything, I get 404 http headers when I access to http://www.example.com/search/old-search-2.php

Other point, search/ folder no longer exists.

How could I get this 301 redirection ?

Thanks !

Answer 1

Try this redirect :

 RedirectMatch 302 ^/search/.*$ http://example.com/