htaccess 301 redirect folder, but not subfolders

Question

I need to redirect from:

http://example.com/folder

to http://example.com/newfolder

But leave:

http://example.com/folder/subfolder

Whe

Answer 1

I just ran into this and here's the solution I came up with. I prefer this method because it doesn't redirect any subdirectory.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/root-directory[/]?
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/root-directory/+[/]?
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]