After a site redesign, I’ve got a couple of pages that need to be redirected. Everything is staying on the same domain, just a couple of things have been reorganised and/or renamed. They are of the form:
/contact.php
is now:
/contact-us.php
Using the .htaccess file, I’ve added this line, which is the one I find recommended most:
RedirectMatch 301 /contact.php /contact-us.php
This is mostly fine – it does the job – the problem is, it also redirects:
- /team1/contact.php
- /non-existant-folder/contact.php
Is there a way of specifying that I only want to redirect the contact.php in the root?
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Answer
RedirectMatch uses a regular expression that is matched against the URL path. And your regular expression /contact.php just means any URL path that contains /contact.php but not just any URL path that is exactly /contact.php. So use the anchors for the start and end of the string (^ and $):
RedirectMatch 301 ^/contact.php$ /contact-us.php