Help Needed With .htaccess RewriteRule
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Hello Fellow Mozzers,
I would really appreciate a little help as I have been banging my head against a wall for the last few hours trying to create a .htaccess RewriteRule.
I have around 300 URLs that I need to 301 redirect following a site re-build, they are in groups of similar urls but infortunately not broken down in to folders.
Here is an example of a few URLs:-
https://www.domain.co.uk/chamaecyparis-lawsoniana-ellwoodii_2.htm
https://www.domain.co.uk/chamaecyparis-lawsoniana-ellwoodii-200225cm-6670.htm
https://www.domain.co.uk/chamaecyparis-lawsoniana-ellwoodii.htm
https://www.domain.co.uk/chamaecyparis-lawsoniana-ellwoods-gold.htm
https://www.domain.co.uk/chamaecyparis-lawsoniana-lemon-queen.htm
https://www.domain.co.uk/chamaecyparis-lawsoniana-yvonne-200cm-66.htmAll of the above URLs need to redirect to a new URL:-
http://www.domain.co.uk/chamaecyparis-lawsoniana
Here is the RewriteRule that I currently have but it isn't working:-
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)_chamaecyparis-lawsoniana$ https://www.domain.co.uk/chamaecyparis-lawsoniana [R=301,L]Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
Ade. -
Thanks Jaspal, works perfectly.
Yes we did meet at LinkLove and hopefully will do again at the next one as I now owe you a beer!
Much appreciated.
Ade. -
Hi Ade, didn't we meet up at LinkLove? Hope things are going well.
Try this:
RewriteRule ^chamaecyparis-lawsoniana-.+ https://www.domain.co.uk/chamaecyparis-lawsoniana [R=301,L]
The underscore was a problem as was the $ at the end
using -.+ at the end to avoid matching the target url
I tried that with regexr and it seems to work ok, not used it in an htaccess
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