RedirectMatch appending Query String

Question

I've got some RedirectMatch statements to redirect old urls to the new documents, but for some reason they're working properly, except that it's appending the initial request url as a query string. Eg. Requesting

http://www.domain.com/filename.html

redirects to

http://www.domain.com/new_filename.html?/filename.html

The corresponding rule would be:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/filename.html$ http://www.domain.com/new_filename.html

Any ideas why this is happening?

Answer 1

Your example doesn't require RedirectMatch; use a simple Redirect:

Redirect permanent /filename.html http://www.domain.com/new_filename.mhtml

Remember that Redirect works on URLs, not paths.