single page redirect 301 not working according to the rules in .htaccess

Question

redirect 301 /Produkte/Supplements http://xxx.xx/Produkte/Inhaltsstoffe/Proteine

why does this rule also redirects

 /Produkte/Supplements/xyz 

to

http://xxx.xx/Produkte/Inhaltsstoffe/Proteine/xyz

?

can't get my head around it.

Answer 1

Due to apache docs - If the client requests http://example.com/Produkte/Supplements/xyz , it will be told to access http://xxx.xx/Produkte/Inhaltsstoffe/Proteine/xyz instead. This also includes requests with GET parameters.

To workaround this use more complex RedirectMatch rule like so:

RedirectMatch ^\/Produkte\/Supplements$ http://xxx.xx/Produkte/Inhaltsstoffe/Proteine