301 Redirect with Wordpress?

Question

the following Redirect is not working, but why is the second one working when I place this before the Wordpress code in the .htaccess file?

Not working:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/euro/stadien/saint-etienne/$ /stadien/saint-etienne/? [R=301,L]

Working:

Redirect 301 /euro/stadien/saint-etienne/ /stadien/saint-etienne/

Do I need to add something like the following to the first piece of code?

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond

Anybody knows the solution?

Answer 1

You can use:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^euro/stadien/(saint-etienne)/$ /stadien/$1/? [R=301,L,NC]

• Leading slash is not matched in mod_rewrite rules while in .htaccess
• Optionally you can capture last part and reuse in target as shown above.