Htaccess Redirect Generator

About Htaccess redirect generator

Generates Apache mod_rewrite rules for redirects: exact paths, wildcard patterns with captured segments, and raw regular expressions. Site-wide switches add HTTPS enforcement, www or non-www canonicalization and trailing-slash handling. Everything is wrapped in an IfModule block so the file fails safely on servers without mod_rewrite.

How to use it

1. Enter your Domain under Site-wide rules and choose Force non-www, Force www or Leave as-is for the Canonical host.
2. Toggle Force HTTPS, Include RewriteBase /, Add a trailing slash or Remove the trailing slash as needed.
3. Press Add redirect and pick a Match type: Exact path, Wildcard or Regex.
4. Fill in From and To, choose a Status code of 301, 302, 307 or 308, and optionally allow case-insensitive matching and add a comment.
5. Read any warnings above the preview, then Copy or Download .htaccess and upload it to your document root.

Exact and wildcard redirects

Exact path: /old-page to /new-page, 301
Wildcard: /blog/* to /articles/$1, 301

RewriteRule ^old-page$ /new-page [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)$ /articles/$1 [R=301,L]

When to use it

• Moving a site to HTTPS and one canonical hostname in a single file.
• Redirecting an old blog path structure to a new one after a CMS migration while keeping each slug.
• Sending numeric product IDs to a new shop URL scheme with a regex capture group.
• Pointing a retired page at another domain with a temporary 302 during a campaign.

Questions about Htaccess redirect generator

What separates the four status codes?

301 and 308 are permanent and get cached hard by browsers and search engines. 302 and 307 are temporary. The 307 and 308 codes also forbid switching the request method, which matters for POST requests.

Why are patterns written without a leading slash?

In per-directory .htaccess context Apache strips the directory prefix before matching, so RewriteRule patterns are relative. The tool removes the leading slash on exact and wildcard rules, but in a regex rule you write it yourself.

Which rules run first?

The site-wide rules for HTTPS, host and slashes come before your redirect list, and every rule ends with the L flag. Path rules run in the order shown, so put the most specific one first.

Why can't both trailing-slash options be on?

Adding and removing slashes together would send visitors in a circle. Enabling both produces an error and neither slash rule is written.

Will a bad regex break my file?

No. A rule with an empty source, an empty destination or a regular expression that does not compile is skipped and listed as an error instead of being written out.

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