I would like to 410 an entire directory - I deleted my blog

Question

I had a folder called blog on my site. I deleted it all permanently. I would like to 410 it. How do i 410 an entire folder?

e.g. my site looked like this

Answer 1

The Redirect directive is the proper way to do this. You should put the following in your virtual host configuration:

Redirect 410 /blog

If you don't have access to the virtual host configuration, you can put it in the .htaccess file in your document root, or I believe you can put the following in the .htaccess file in the blog subdirectory:

Redirect 410 /

(I might be off about that, I'm not sure how exactly Redirect interacts with path resolution in .htaccess files)