redirection problem /a to /a/b not redirecting properly

I’m trying to redirect from example.com/news/ to example.com/categories/news/ and I’d like to make the last / optional.

Here’s what I’ve entered in Redirection:

Source URL:
/news/?$

Destination URL:
/category/news/

I was expecting if I enter example.com/news/ or example.com/news it would redirect to example.com/category/news/. But it only works for example.com/news/.

If I enter example.com/news on Firefox, I get an error:

The page isn’t redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

And if I enter example.com/category/news on Firefox I get:
category/category/category/category/category/category/category/category/category/category/category/category/category/category/category/category/category/category/category/category/news/

I’ve tried entering the source URL as:
^/news/?$

but Revisions modifies it to
/^/news/?$

Any suggestions?

(I’ve also tried entering the source URL as /news/ and /news but I get the same behavior in all cases)

Thanks,
Dan

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