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

I don't think Redirect is the right tool for this, as it only matches the path specified. Just use:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^blog/ - [G]