htaccess simple Redirect doesn't work with trailing slash

Question

I find a lot of answers to this question (and I have read dozens of them), but they are all about more advanced stuff with patterns and such stuff. I just need a very simple and basic redirect for static urls. If I add a trailing slash to the url, the redirect doesn't work and I just can't figure out why. Example:

RewriteEngine On
Redirect 301 /content https://www.example.com/site/content.html
Redirect 301 /content/ https://www.example.com/site/content.html

https://example.com/content does work, https://example.com/content/ redirects to https://example.com/site/

What is the problem here?

Answer 1

Don't mix mid_rewrite rules with Redirect (mod_alias). Use this rule as very first rule in your root .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^content/?$ https://www.example.com/site/content.html [L,NC,R=302]