: Htaccess 301 redirect subdirectory one level deeper - why is this not working? it is probably a stupid question, but I have real troubles figuring out, how to redirect /products to /products/item

@Jessie594

Posted in: #301Redirect #Htaccess #Wordpress

it is probably a stupid question, but I have real troubles figuring out, how to redirect

/products to /products/item

It is a simple redirect, no regex needed. The toplevel site /products should just always redirect to /products/item

I tried:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RedirectMatch 301 /products(.*) /products/item/
</IfModule>


I receive the error, that the webserver is redirecting in an infinite loop. That might be because of the rest of the htaccess file. Which looks like that:

# Custom Rules
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RedirectMatch 301 /products(.*) /products/item/
</IfModule>

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress


But the strangest thing: When I load the page, I get the error. When I then hit reload, it works???

Thanks for your help!
ole

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