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How to write an Apache redirect rule

One path should move, permanently or not. Write the rule on htaccess Redirect Generator.

Ben Fidge · · 4 min read

An htaccess snippet is one 301 or 302 rule. After deploy, the hop list should end on the URL you meant.
An htaccess snippet is one 301 or 302 rule, and it does not read the existing file.

What to run

Open htaccess Redirect Generator. It stays in the browser.

How to read the result

The snippet is one rule, 301 or 302, from a path to a URL.

It does not read your existing .htaccess.

A 301 will be cached by browsers.

What to open next

Open Redirect Checker after deploy. The check runs from Cloudflare.

Open HTTP Status Codes if you are unsure which code you emitted. It stays in the browser.

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