.htaccess 301 redirect of single page
Solution 1
RedirectMatch
uses a regular expression that is matched against the URL path. And your regular expression /contact.php
just means any URL path that contains /contact.php
but not just any URL path that is exactly /contact.php
. So use the anchors for the start and end of the string (^
and $)
:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/contact\.php$ /contact-us.php
Solution 2
This should do it
RedirectPermanent /contact.php /contact-us.php
Solution 3
redirect 301 /contact.php /contact-us.php
There is no point using the redirectmatch rule and then have to write your links so they are exact match. If you don't include you don't have to exclude! Just use redirect without match and then use links normally
Andras Dosztal
Updated on July 09, 2022Comments
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Andras Dosztal almost 2 years
After a site redesign, I've got a couple of pages that need to be redirected. Everything is staying on the same domain, just a couple of things have been reorganised and/or renamed. They are of the form:
/contact.php
is now:
/contact-us.php
Using the .htaccess file, I've added this line, which is the one I find recommended most:
RedirectMatch 301 /contact.php /contact-us.php
This is mostly fine - it does the job - the problem is, it also redirects:
- /team1/contact.php
- /non-existant-folder/contact.php
Is there a way of specifying that I only want to redirect the contact.php in the root?