Here is a quick overview of how to redirect URLs in your htaccess file using RedirectMatch (regex).
Firstly, here’s an example of a RedirectMatch redirect:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/services/?$ https://www.yezzoo.com/
Now let’s break this down:
- RedirectMatch – This states we want to base the redirect on a regular expression (also known as regex), the redirect will occur if a URL matches the regex.
- 301 – Type of redirect. 301 is a permanent redirect (stating the page has moved forever).
- Regex. Here are the symbols used in this example and their meanings.
- ^ – Match anything before this character
- ? – Match with or without the previous character, so in this example it would match /services or /services/
- $ – End of url, do not match anything after this character.
- URL – The destination URL where you’d like traffic to any pages that meet the regex condition redirected to.
I hope this is helpful.
