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Asked: 2026-05-27T00:57:00+00:00

Google has indexed this page http://[site-removed]/showering-accessories on my client’s site which doesn’t actually exist.

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Google has indexed this page http://[site-removed]/showering-accessories on my client’s site which doesn’t actually exist. The correct URL should be http://[site-removed]/products-page/showering-accessories

I don’t want the site to be penalised in Google, So I’ve added this rule in .htaccess in the root of the site:

RedirectMatch 302 ^/showering-accessories /products-page/showering-accessories

(Note: I had been experimenting with 301 redirects previously)

This works as intended in IE and Firefox, but in Chrome I end up at this page, due to what I assume is a wordpress application-level (PHP) redirect:

http://[site-removed]/products-page/products

Why is this? Shouldn’t the .htaccess rules always kick in before it reaches the PHP code?
How can I fix it?

BTW I also have these rules below the RedirectMatch:

# Redirect all pages to subdirectory /new
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /new/$1 [L,QSA]
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  1. Editorial Team

    That redirect works fine for me when I use chrome. Are you sure your Chrome doesn’t have an old redirect cached or something?

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