[removed] in .htaccess causes 500 server error (Redirect to non-URL)

Question

have such kind of error.

When adding Redirect 301 rule to .htaccess file like:

Redirect 301 \"/page1.html\" \"/dir1/\"
         


        

Answer 1

I had same issue, for me this didn't work as well:

RewriteRule ^/page1.html$ /dir1/page.html [R=301,L]

What worked for me is to remove the leading slash, and add soft tailing slash with ?, like this:

RewriteRule ^(page1.html)/?$ dir1/page.html [R=301,L]