Htaccess 301 regex question
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I need some help with a regex for htaccess. I want to 301 redirect this:
to this:
changes:
- different protocol (http -> https)
- add 'www.'
- different domain (olddomain and newdomain are constants)
- different subdirectory (oldsubdir and newsubdir are constants)
- 'fruit' is a variable (which will contain only letters [a-zA-Z])
- is it possible to make 'fruit' UPPER case on the redirect (so 'fruit' -> 'FRUIT')
- remove '.aspx'
I think it's something like this (placed in the .htaccess file in the root directory of olddomain):
RedirectMatch 301 /oldsubdir/(.*).aspx https://www.newdomain.com/newsubdir/$1
Thanks.
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Hi Mike,
I am happy it worked out.
you can use this to check as well
http://seo-website-designer.com/Response-Redirect-Header-Checker
All the best,
Tom
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Hey Tom,
I guess this was mostly a regex question. I think I figured it out:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.com$
RewriteRule ^oldsubdir/([a-zA-Z.]+).aspx$ https://www.newdomain.com/newsubdir/$1 [R=301]Thanks for the tips.
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I would use http://www.htaccessredirect.net/
this can help to
http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php
Let me know if you need anything
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Thanks, Tom. But 'fruit' was a placeholder for a variable page name that can contain letters or a '.' (sorry if that wasn't clear). for example, 'fruit' could be "abc.def.aspx" and I'd like it to become "ABC.DEF" (strip off the .aspx and uppercase it). Need a regex. The '.' within 'fruit' may or may not be present. But the page will always have the suffix '.aspx' that I want to strip off.
I'd also like to do it with an .htaccess statement instead of VBScript. Running on unix.
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You would use
<%@ Language="VBScript" %>
<%
' ASP permanent URL redirect - generated by www.rapidtables.com
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "https://www.newdomain.com/newsubdir/FRUIT"
Response.End
%>try
http://www.rapidtables.com/web/tools/redirect-generator.htm
I hope this helps,
Tom
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