htaccess redirect not working in same domain

Question

I want to redirect https://xxx.xxxx.com/zzz to https://xxx.xxxx.com/zzz247 . I have tried this

Redirect 301 / https://xxx.xxxx.com/zzz247

So now when I try https://xxx.xxxx.com/zzz its take me into https://xxx.xxxx.com/zzz247zzz247zzz247zzz247zzz247zzz247zzz247....

How can I fix this issue? help please

What is required

I need enable only one URL which is https://xxx.xxxx.com/zzz247 even user type https://xxx.xxxx.com/zzz

Answer 1

Instead of Redirect directive use RedirectMatch with regex support:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/zzz/?$ /zzz247

Redirect appends current URI into redirected URI and since you're matching / that will match anything and cause a redirect loop.

Make sure to clear your browser cache before testing.

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Using RewriteRule you can do this:

RewriteRule ^zzz/?$ /zzz247? [L,NC,R=301]

? at the end of the target URI is for stripping any query string.