By Brendo Ross
Hey forum
I’m trying to achieve something that’s been bugging me for the last 2 days. I need to do a redirect when someone access a specific folder of my website but not redirect if a subfolder of that folder is accessed.
Basically, an example is:
If someone loads https://domain.com/folder I want to redirect it to https://domain.com however if someone access http://domain.com/folder/subfolder I don’t want any redirect to happen and the page to load.
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Accepted Answer
Hi @brendros,
I would use RedirectMatch. This directive is equivalent to Redirect, but makes use of regular expressions, instead of simple prefix matching. The supplied regular expression is matched against the URL-path, and if it matches, the server will substitute any parenthesized matches into the given string and use it as a filename.
RedirectMatch 302 ^/folder/$ https://domain.com/
That should do the trick.
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