.htaccess redirect only for homepage?

Question

My website has more languages and I want to do this redirect for every languages for example: /es/ to /es, simple with Redirect but this method make problems for subpages, how can I tell htaccess to use this rule only for homepage?

Answer 1

Assuming that the homepage is the page url: index.php, you'd use:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(en|es|de|hi|jp|zh|...)/(index\.php)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [R=301,L]

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If you do not want to use mod_rewrite and would prefer a mod_alias solution, try:

RedirectMatch 301 "/(en|es|de|hi|jp|zh|...)/(index\.php)?$" /$1

Please note that I'm not much familiar with mod_alias, so the latter might not work right away. If so, do inform me with a comment here along with the request line from apache's access_log.