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

If mod-rewrite isn't enabled or you are unable to use RewriteRule directive on your server, you can use RedirectMatch directive of mod-alias which is the default module of apache httpd server.

RedirectMatch 301 ^/folder/?$ http://example.com/newfolder/ 

This will 301 redirect /folder/ to /newfolder/ .