Redirect 301 in .htaccess causes 500 server error (Redirect to non-URL)

Question

have such kind of error.

When adding Redirect 301 rule to .htaccess file like:

Redirect 301 "/page1.html" "/dir1/"

My site fails with 500 server error and in apache error log this error appears:

[Wed Mar 16 11:08:52 2011] [alert] [client 127.0.0.1] /home/htdocs/site.com/www/.htaccess: Redirect to non-URL

Mod rewrite is installed, also tried to provide urls without quotes.

On production server this .htaccess works fine, but on local causes troubles

Any ideas, please)

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This rule works

Redirect 301 "/page1.html" "http://www.site.com/dir1/"

but I need a way to supply relative paths instead of full urls (production server works that way)

Answer 1

Changed all Redirect 301 rules to:

RewriteRule ^/page1.html$ /dir1/page.html [R=301,L]

now working. But how does it work on production?

Answer 2

For me, I had the exact same issue. Adding "http://domain.com" in front of "/mypage" worked; I am still testing to get it to work without, as is does on my production server. So my .htaccess on my local testing environment, went like this:

BROKEN: Redirect 301 /mypage /directory1/sub-directory/mypage/

FIXED: Redirect 301 http://mydomain.com/mypage http://mydomain.com/directory1/sub-directory/mypage/