Redirection Plugin and htaccess

Also is that the htaccess redirect code that that Redirection plugin is creating/generating? That code could be problematic. Typically for redirects you would use htaccess code like this below instead using the RewriteRule directive:

Important Note: This code is being forced into 2 lines and should be only 1 continuous line of code.

RedirectMatch 301 ^/business-coach/$ https://www.example.com/business/

Well the difference is using the RedirecMatch directive vs the RewriteRule directive and not so much using the IfModule directive.

Yes, removing the trailing slash will work, but use caution because that says to match everything from/to /business-coach. Let’s say you have another URL this is something like this /business-coach-blah. That redirect rule will also match the portion of that URL. ie /business-coach. Typically you want to match all the way to the last trailing slash because that makes the particular URI completely unique. /business-coach/ would not match /business-coach-blah/.

Why would you want to match /business-coach without a trailing slash? Typically you would always want to match up to the last trailing URI slash. That is the standard URI matching pattern for redirects.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by AITpro.

I updated my comments in my previous reply. The redirect rule in my previous reply is actually exactly what you want to use to match the URI with and without a trailing slash.