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Sometimes the author of your component will provide a way to do such an override, so check the documentation first. If that is not possible, brute force works:
I recently solved this problem for myself by inserting a rule at the top of my .htaccess file on the server. Most Apache servers will handle this correctly. The rule would look like this:
Redirect 301 ...
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