diff --git a/www/.htaccess b/www/.htaccess
index 1229b732fb..93d2d55ac5 100644
--- a/www/.htaccess
+++ b/www/.htaccess
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
 
 # Redirect old top-level HTML pages to the version under most recent
 #  full release.
-redirectmatch 301 /$ /{{RELEASED_SERIES}}/
-redirectmatch 301 /index.html$ /{{RELEASED_SERIES}}/
-redirectmatch 301 /openstack-projects.html$ /{{RELEASED_SERIES}}/projects.html
-redirectmatch 301 /language-bindings.html$ /{{RELEASED_SERIES}}/language-bindings.html
+redirectmatch 301 ^/$ /{{RELEASED_SERIES}}/
+redirectmatch 301 ^/index.html$ /{{RELEASED_SERIES}}/
+redirectmatch 301 ^/openstack-projects.html$ /{{RELEASED_SERIES}}/projects.html
+redirectmatch 301 ^/language-bindings.html$ /{{RELEASED_SERIES}}/language-bindings.html
 
 # Redirecting End-of-Life (EOL) versions, see https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Releases:
 redirectmatch 301 /bexar/.*$ /index.html