htaccess 301 redirect folder, but not subfolders

Question

I need to redirect from:

http://example.com/folder

to http://example.com/newfolder

But leave:

http://example.com/folder/subfolder

Whe

Answer 1

I've tried other methods here with mixed success. I am no Apache expert by any means, but here is the simple one-liner that works every time for me. I just use RedirectMatch instead of Redirect and include a very simple RegEx to end the match at or just before the trailing slash, meaning that subdirectories should never qualify as a match.

RedirectMatch 301 ^/folder[/]?$ /newfolder