.htaccess redirect problem! All subdirectories to root [SOLVED]

Question

Hello,

I'm trying to redirect all subdirectories to the root of my website via .htaccess! The code below works fine if I try to access a subdirectory ... but doesn't let me display the index page in the root because starts a loop of redirects!

RedirectMatch temp ^/.*$ http://localhost/

How can I solve?

Thanks!

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EDIT1: Or is there a way to deny the access to all the subdirectories via .htaccess?

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SOLUTION: The solution to the question (thanks to TomG) is:

RedirectMatch temp ^/.+/.*$ http://localhost/

Answer 1

If you want all subdirectores to redirect to the home page, you would do something like this:

RedirectMatch temp ^/.+/.*$ http://localhost/

This will match any URI with two slashes in it, with at least one character between them.