Over time, filenames of our software have changed for various reasons, so an old download file pointed to by shareware sites no longer exists.
I want to redirect so that if somebody clicks a link to the old file they can download the new (different named) version.
So I tried adding a .htaccess file into public_html that contains the following (and nothing else):
Redirect 301 mydomain.com/oldinstaller.exe mydomain.com/newinstaller.exe
But that didnt work, I get 500 errors issued by the server. All files are in public_html and so is the .htaccess file. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
UPDATE
I tried the following:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^oldinstaller.msi /newinstaller.exe [R=301,L]
and the browser is given this URL:
https://example.com/home/admin/web/example.com/public_html/newinstaller.exe
And if I try:
RewriteRule ^oldinstaller.msi$ example.com/newinstaller.exe [R=301,L]
I get:
https://example.com/example.com/newinstaller.exe
