Redirect page to inside directory using htaccess, keeps looping

Question

I want to redirect http://sub.domain.com/summit/ to http://sub.domain.com/summit/home/ . After googling i found few rules but none of them working it keeps looping and adds /summit/home multiple times, Below is why i tried last

RewriteRule summit/(.*)$ /summit/home/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

I want to redirect http://sub.domain.com/summit/ to http://sub.domain.com/summit/home/ . After googling i found few rules but none of them working it keeps looping and adds /summit/home multiple times, Below is why i tried last

RewriteRule summit/(.*)$ /summit/home/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

Below is the complete .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^articles/([1-9]+)(.*)$ ?id=$1&$2 [R=301,L]


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^research/([1-9]+)(.*)$ ?id=$1&$2 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

<IfModule mod_expires.c>

ExpiresActive on
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 year"

ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 week"

ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 year"

ExpiresByType application/x-web-app-manifest+json "access plus 0 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/cache-manifest "access plus 0 seconds"

ExpiresByType audio/ogg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType video/mp4 "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType video/ogg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType video/webm "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType application/atom+xml "access plus 1 hour"
ExpiresByType application/rss+xml "access plus 1 hour"

ExpiresByType application/font-woff "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-font-ttf "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType font/opentype "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 month"

</IfModule>

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/gif
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/jpeg
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/png

Answer 1

You can use negative lookahead:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/summit/home [NC]
RewriteRule ^summit/(.*)$ /summit/home/$1 [R=301,NC,L]