301 redirect folder root

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I'm struggling with a fairly simple 301 redirect.

I have several redirects for pages which all work fine - eg

Redirect 301 /folder/mypage1.html https://www.example.com/folder/mypage2.html.

However now I want to redirect from a folder root to another page, I don't however want any of the other pages in the folder to redirect.

So /myfolder/ should redirect to https://www.example.com/mypage.html but /myfolder/mypage.html should not redirect.

I've tried:

Redirect 301 /myfolder/ https://www.example.com/mypage.html but this doesn't work.

I apologize for the newbie question that probably has a very simple answer.

url-rewriting .htaccess redirect mod-rewrite apache
2 Answers

With your shown samples, please try following htaccess rules file. This uses apache's THE_REQUESTvariable to perform rewrite.

Please make sure to clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/myfolder/\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^  mypage.html [L]
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Use RedirectMatch, which matches using a regex, rather than simple prefix-matching (as with Redirect) to redirect requests for the folder only.

For example:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/myfolder/$ https://www.example.com/mypage.html

Both Redirect and RedirectMatch belong to the same Apache module: mod_alias

You will need to clear your browser cache if you have been experimenting with 301 (permanent) redirects. Test first with 302 (temporary) redirects to avoid potential caching issues.

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