301 Redirect to single url without autosubstitution

Question

I need to redirect site's visitors from /good/cats to /bad. What i write:

Redirect 301 /good/cats http://somedomain/bad

What i get:

http://somedomain/bad/cats

What should i write to redirect to the http://somedomain/bad?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 24 '16 at 07:42

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You need to use RedirectMatch

RedirectMatch 301 ^/good/cats$  http://somedomain/bad

The reason why your Redirect is not working is because Redirect directive appends additional old path segments to the destination. so the /cats is being appened.

answered Mar 24 '16 at 07:42

Amit Verma

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Thanks for clarifying! – Df.fpm Mar 24 '16 at 08:07

301 Redirect to single url without autosubstitution

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