Question

I’m having an issue with a format of URL.

I need to send
/en
to /

The problem is that I need only /en (exactly), not /en/foo…

I know how to do it with string that ends with .html, but here I have other URLS that have /en/stuff and they are also matched.

Would really appreciate assistance…

Answer 1

You need to specify end of string in RewriteCond e.g.

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/en$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$  / [L,R=301]

Please note that Condition pattern as well as Rewrite Rule pattern are a perl compatible regular expression (with some additions):

For Anchors:

• ^ – Start-of-line anchor
• $ – End-of-line anchor

EDIT

BTW, there is very nice htaccess tester at http://htaccess.madewithlove.be/ which you could use to test the rules.