Question

I’ve been trying to set up a redirect for a page that recently moved. The page was originally at http://example.com/foo/, but has since moved to http://example.com/foo/bar/ .

I tried the following rule in my sites .htaccess file:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/foo/$ /foo/bar/

However going to the url http://example.com/foo/ resulted in a redirect to the url http://example.com/foo/bar/?/foo/. While the url works and the page I want to redirect to loads, I would quite like to get rid of the extra ?/foo/ at the end of the url.

Here is my full .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# add trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

# allow access to certain directories in webroot
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|robots\.txt|css/|lib/|js/|images/|^(.*)/images)

# gets rid of index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# page redirects
RedirectMatch 301 ^/foo/$ /foo/bar/

Answer 1

Adding a RewriteRrule to the top of the .htaccess after the RewriteBase / file solved the problem.

RewriteRule ^foo/$ /foo/bar [R=301,L]