What's wrong with redirect in .htaccess?

Question

htaccess

Why when I redirect from the root folder to a specific page in .htaccess:
redirect 301 / http://site/news.php/
the page name is duplicated in the address bar

http://site/news.php/news.php/news.php/news.php/news.php/news.php/news.php/news.php/news.php/news.php/news.php/news.php/news.php/news.php/news.php/news.php/news.php/news.php/news.php/

And accordingly nothing opens. How to fix?

Answer 1

redirect 301 ^/& http://site/news.php/
In your version, the redirect will always occur when there is a slash in the uri.
You need to specify the start-of-line (^) and end-of-line (&) marks

Answer 2

RedirectMatch 301 ^/$ http://site/news.php/
Or
RewriteRule ^$ http://site/news.php/ [R=301,L]