Redirect Image Url to a page via htaccess

Question

I am trying to redirect Image Urls to a page. I have used 301 Redirection plugin, but that doesn't seem to work.

For ex : http://mywebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Contestant-11.jpg should redirect to mywebsite.com/page

I have used 'Link to' to 'Media File' in individual image settings since I am using Social gallery plugin and it needs images to be linked to 'Media File' (since it is a Lightbox social sharing plugin)

How can I redirect all the image URls to a page of my choice using htaccess?

Answer 1

You'll need to add a rewrite rule to your .htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !/wp-admin/ [NC]
    RewriteRule ^wp-content/uploads/.+?\.(jpe?g|png|gif|svg)$ /my-page [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

Add this after anything added by WordPress. You'll need to replace /my-page with the slug of the page you'd like to redirect to.