Once set parent 301 redirection then child page redirection not working-CodePudding

I am getting issues in 301 redirections

Example 1

I have a URL called https://www.example.com/abc/xyz-1 and I have to redirect to https://www.example.com/abc/xyz

So I have tried the below code and it's working.

Redirect 301 /abc/xyz-1 https://www.example.com/abc/xyz

Example 2

I have one more URL that I have to redirect

https://www.example.com/abc to https://www.example.com/postname and I tried the below code and this is also working.

Redirect 301 /abc https://www.example.com/postname

Now my issue is, that once I add the above code in my htaccess then the first example stops working.

Any idea how to solve this issue?

CodePudding user response：

Redirect module is usually the best choice for handling similarly matching URIs as it only matches starting part which is /abc in both the cases.

You should consider using RedirectMatch that supports regular expression for precise matching:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/abc/xyz-1/?$ /abc/xyz

RedirectMatch 301 ^/abc/?$ /postname

RedirectMatch 301 ^/job/?$ /opening/

Note use of regex anchors ^ and $ here for precise matching. e.g. ^/abc/?$ will match /abc or /abc/ but won't affect /abc/xyz-1.