changing a url with mod_rewrite

[emrldwpn]

i have a site at http://www.lyricallysquared.com/
right now all the urls are setup like http://www.lyricallysquared.com/viewartist/Finch - is there a way i can change this to work under just http://www.lyricallysquared.com/Finch ? thanks for any help

[Guest]

i have a site at http://www.lyricallysquared.com/
right now all the urls are setup like http://www.lyricallysquared.com/viewartist/Finch - is there a way i can change this to work under just http://www.lyricallysquared.com/Finch ? thanks for any help

through 404 error

[seomike]

I wouldn't use a 404. instead use a 301 redirect so that search engines will pass page scores

#htaccess file code

redirect 301 /viewartist/Finch http://www.lyricallysquared.com/Finch