The URL redirection is an advance feature that allows you to use several directives (methods) for the
redirection.

* Redirect Directive - The Redirect directive maps a requested URL into a new one by asking the web
client to re-fetch the resource to the new location.
* RedirectMatch Directive - The RedirectMatch directive maps a Request-URL into a new one by making use
of standard regular expressions, instead of simple prefix matching. The supplied regular expression is matched
against the URL-path, and if it matches, the server substitutes any parenthesized matches into the given
string and use it as a filename.
For example, to redirect all GIF files to like-named JPEG files on another server, you might use:

Regular Expression: (.*).gif$
RedirectMatch URL: http://www.anotherserver.com$1.jpg

Also, if you want to redirect all GIF files to picture.gif on another server, you might use:

Regular Expression: .gif$
RedirectMatch URL: http://www.anotherserver.com/picture.gif

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