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I want to redirect a directory to another directory but I've hit a snag. I want to redirect /directory_name to /new_directory_name so I put this in my .htaccess:

RedirectMatch 301 /directory_name/(.*) /new_directory_name/$1

Which worked fine BUT I also have another directory called :

/images/directory_name/

And the redirect is redirecting links to files in that directory to /new_directory_name/ and resulting in broken image links.

So I need a redirect that ONLY redirects /directory_name/ and not any other directories that happen to have the same name (but are in a different location).

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I don't know much about the subject, but I tried the following code on my server and it worked. Check it out.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^a\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.a\.com$
RewriteRule ^directory_a\/$ "http\:\/\/a\.com\/new_directory_a" [R=301,L]
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