.htaccess redirect

Hello guys,

Google keeps indexing some of my articles in this form:

mywebsite.com/item/my-article

However I'm mainly using:

mywebsite.com/item/articles/my-article

So in a way I have duplicated content and also the first link does not show the modules I want.
I want to create a .htaccess redirect than whenever someone joins on the first link to be automatically redirected to the second link.

Thank You

 

RedirectMatch 301 /item/(.*)$ http://mywebsite.com/item/articles/$1

Code (markup):

 

I somehow get redirected to :

mywebsite.com/item/articles/articles/articles/articles/articles/articles/articles/articles/articles/articles/articles/articles/articles/articles/articles/articles/articles/articles/articles/articles/articles/sniper-guide-dota-2
(where mywebsite is my actually website)

 

Anyone?

 

Plug the normal and desired URLs into http://redbot.org/

This will help you analyze the headers to see if you have multiple redirects for some reason.

If you are using a CMS there could be other rewrite rules causing issues.

Another format to try is:

RewriteRule ^subdirectory/(.*)$ /anotherdirectory/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

Code (markup):

The additional items at the end tell it to use a 301, ignore case and be the last rule processed.

 

The last one seems to work. Thanks