htaccess Redirect to Child Directory

I'm trying to 301 redirect to a ch开发者_StackOverflow社区ild directory using .htaccess i.e.

Redirect 301 /parent http://example.com/parent/child/

Unfortunately this results in a redirect loop i.e.

/parent/child/child/child/child/etc.

Please could anyone point me in the right direction?

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Redirect directive will match and redirect everything that starts with /parent. You need to use RedirectMatch to only redirect this specific folder:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/parent/?$ http://example.com/parent/child/

The same, but using mod_rewrite:

RewriteRule ^parent/?$ http://example.com/parent/child/ [R=301,L]

NOTES: Place it in .htaccess in website root folder. If placed elsewhere some small tweaking may be required.