We have temporarily suspended the French and German versions of a client site built in WordPress, as the translations were extremely outdated. We want to 302 the www.example.com/fra/ and www.example.com/deu/ subfolders and all related URLs to www.example.com until the new translations are ready.
Researching on stackoverflow lead me to add the following code to .htaccess, but it doesn’t work completely. www.example.com/fra/ redirects correctly, but www.example.com/fra/xxx redirects to www.example.com/xxx, while example.com/fra (no trailing slash) gives a 404.
RedirectMatch 302 ^/fra/.*$ http://www.example.com
RedirectMatch 302 ^/deu/.*$ http://www.example.com
Any suggestions gratefully received!
