301 redirect for wordpress permarlink

Question

on .httaccess, we use like this.

RedirectMatch 301 ^/food/(.*)$ http//:domain.com/food-for-healthy/$1

It works good. but we have a problem with 1 old link. we used to have a multi-site and the name is "food". it changed to "food-for-healthy"

Therefore we have changed like these.

RedirectMatch 301 ^/food/(.*)$ http//:domain.com/food-for-healthy/$1

and as you know,

http//:domain.com/food/

and

http//:domain.com/food

are same.

The problem is http//:domain.com/food which needs to go to http//:domain.com/food-for-healty/

I have tried several things but it gets redirect error.

RedirectMatch 301 /food http//:domain.com/food-for-healthy

this gets a redirect error. how can I change it to work properly?

I have put "http:" instead of "http://" I don't have enough reputation to put links. :) — pulla, Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 0:52
while you happen to be using WordPress, this is an .htaccess question and would be more appropriate on stackoverflow — Milo, Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 1:03

Pothi Kalimuthu · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-26 12:12:57Z

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You may try this...

RedirectMatch 301 ^/food$ http//:domain.com/food-for-healthy/

As per the syntax for RedirectMatch, the URL part can not be a regex. So, to achieve that you may use RewriteRule.

answered Jun 26, 2013 at 1:55

Pothi Kalimuthu

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it comes with a redirect error and goes to http://:domain.com/food-for-healthy/food-for-healthy/food-for-healthy/food-for-healthy/food-for-healthy/food-for-healthy/food-for-healthy/food-for-healthy/...
– pulla
Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 5:54
You are right. It was my mistake. I updated my answer now. I hope that helps.
– Pothi Kalimuthu
Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 12:13

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