Redirects not working

[Typhoon101 Profile]

Hi. I have been tasked with creating a couple of vanity URLs for our website. However, I cannot seem to get them to work. An example of a URL we require is http://www.domain.com/uk/product which should redirect to something like /uk/dir1/dir2/dir3/index.htm. The rule I am trying (amongst other working rules) is

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(?:/)?uk/product(.*)? /uk/dir1/dir2/dir3/index.htm [NC,R=301,L]

Am I doing something wrong?

I should probably add that if my rule is only one directory deep (I.e. ^(?:/)?product(.*)?), the redirect works. It only fails when trying to match something deeper than the root level.

Thanks.

[Anton]

Hello,

Please clarify where your .htaccess is located - in the siteroot?
Put the following in the siteroot .htaccess:

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^uk/product /uk/dir1/dir2/dir3/index.htm [NC,R=301,L]

If it doesn't work, please enable logging and provide rewrite.log records for the test request.