Adding $ on redirect stops working, rewriteRule not working

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Problem

I'm trying to redirect some pages from my website to the home of another website, but I can't seem to make it work. Currently i have this:

redirect 301 /portalwebhttp://www2.tha.com.br

It works if the url is exactly www.oldwebsite.com.br/portalweb.But if add anything after the portalweb it redirects to this: http://www.mywebsite.com.br/anything

I have tried the following solutions:

redirect 301 /portalweb$ http://www.mywebsite.com.br

Redirect "/portalweb$" "http://www.mywebsite.com.br/"

RedirectMatch ^portalweb/$ http://www.mywebsite.com.br

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule    "^portalweb$"  "http://www.mywebsite.com.br/" [R,L]
RewriteRule    "^portalweb/$"  "http://www.mywebsite.com.br/" [R,L]

When i add any of the solutions above, it just doesn't work at all. It seems that the $ character make the redirect not work.

Thanks in advance.

Have you tried a wild card https://stackoverflow.com/q/6877486/4139335 — Michael Warner, Feb 28 '19 at 19:35
@MichaelWarner - His problem was not exactly the same as mine, i don't want the following url to be redirect as well, but i manage to resolve my problem by adding a 301 on the `RedirectMatch`. I'll post a answer. — Alberto Guilherme, Feb 28 '19 at 20:09
I'm glad you found a solution! Just to be clear I was not saying it was the same question but this technique might help that's all. — Michael Warner, Feb 28 '19 at 20:13
@MichaelWarner - Yes haha, I'm sorry if implied that, it was not my intention. Do you know why the `301` solved? — Alberto Guilherme, Feb 28 '19 at 20:18

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 28 '19 at 20:20

Using the answer stackoverflow.com/q/6877486/4139335 that was sugested by @MichaelWarner. I notice that i was missing a 301 in my RedirectMatch

This worked: RedirectMatch 301 ^/portalweb/$ https://www.mywebsite.com.br I don't know why the 301 did the trick, if someone explain it to me, i would be glad.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 28 '19 at 20:27

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RedirectMatch is equivalent to Redirect, but makes use of regular expressions, as exampled here.

Redirect default status code is 302 as explained here.

If you change the status code to 301 this should fix it.

answered Feb 28 '19 at 20:27

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Adding $ on redirect stops working, rewriteRule not working

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